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HEREDIA-MAYORGA, Hugo. Big data in education . Horizontes Rev. Inv. Cs. Edu. [online]. 2020, vol.4, n.16, pp.523-535. ISSN 2616-7964.

Abstract The study sought to determine the importance and applicability of the Big Data concept as a decision-making element in academic, administrative and financial processes, the objective is to describe the role of Big Data in education and to know the number of existing investigations. The methodology used to carry out the systematic literature review was Petersen's, which is classified into four stages. Applying the initial search criteria, the result was that there are 69 publications with low adoption by educational institutions of Big data, 15 do not use data collection tools efficiently, which makes it difficult to look at the contributions in education, and 6 publications show important solutions for the use of Big Data. Big Data is a relatively new phenomenon in education and its applications in academic activities will allow to shape a modern and dynamic educational system.

Palabras clave : Big data; education; data analytics; data science; educational data analytics.

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