Wafa Alnaieem

EDCT: 7042
Dr.Wu

The rise of Big Data: what does it

mean for Education, technology, and
media research?
This article is interesting to me. The writer mentioned some challenges
in the article. The first sets of challenges are to do with ethics. Big Data
represents a number of ethical considerations, particularly around
privacy, Informed Consent, and protection of harm, and raises wider
questions of what kinds of Data should be combined and analyzed, and
the purposes to which this should be put. The Second challenges are
those around issues of difference, and how Big Data may both support
and perhaps even exacerbate existing social and Educational contrast in
a number of ways.
This writing directly relates to the The rise of Big Data: what does it
mean for education, technology, and media research discussion as it
clearly shows education, technology, and media research these concepts
were discussed as a science portion of this course.
Finally, the article discussed the uncertainty with regard to the
population to assessments. This relates to the constant use of standard
errors and confidence intervals for parameter estimates in class. And I
think that Big Data is still a relative topic, but it is clearly beginning to
grow.

Reference:
Rebecca, E. (2013) The rise of Big Data: what does it mean for education,
technology, and media research?, Learning, Media and Technology, 38:3,
237-240, DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2013.771783

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2013.77 Published online: 25 Feb 2013.