Big Opportunities and Big Concerns of Big Data in Education

TechTrends

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 381-384

  Wang, Yinying ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Education; Educational policy implementation; Educational policymaking; Ethics; Learning analytics; Privacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975469394     PISSN: 87563894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11528-016-0072-1     Document Type: Article

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