What are the implications of the big data era for educational technology

First of all, it must be clear what is big data. The so-called big data is a scale so large that in terms of access, storage, management, analysis greatly exceeds the traditional database software tools ability to range of data collection, with massive data scale, rapid data flow, diverse data types, low value density and other characteristics.

Secondly, the role or value of big data, big data can help provide products or services to the enterprise to carry out accurate marketing; big data can find the characteristics of the market, so as to find the undiscovered business opportunities; traditional enterprises can be based on big data to do the transformation of the Internet and so on.

According to these characteristics of big data, it is not difficult to find out the impact of big data on educational technology:

1. The predictive nature of big data can find out the characteristics of the learner, so as to develop a learning mode or learning software that is more in line with the learner;

2. The speed of big data can find out the problems and characteristics of the implementation of the educational technology program, so as to make adjustments;

3, the diversity of big data, can be more comprehensive understanding of the advantages and problems of educational technology, educational technology has become more intelligent, I call it adaptive technology.

In short, the arrival of the era of big data makes the further development of educational technology in many ways possible.