Big data refers to information that involves such a huge amount of data that it cannot be captured, managed, processed and arranged by current mainstream software tools within a reasonable time to help enterprises make more active business decisions. The innovation of big data develops along the direction from data to big data, to analysis and mining, and finally to discovery and prediction. With the advent of the cloud era, big data has attracted more and more attention. All walks of life are more aware that whoever can take the lead in realizing big data and who digs deeper into big data will seize the opportunity in the future.
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The education industry is no exception. 20 13 is a great opportunity for traditional educational research to move towards scientific demonstration. What is worth thinking about is what big data will bring to education. How to better educate students through big data? Is big data a blessing or a curse for education?
Flipping classrooms, large-scale open online courses and micro-courses are the first wave of big data transformation education.
The emergence of flip classroom, large-scale open online courses and micro-courses has changed the traditional education model, from endless explanations by classroom teachers to "video re-education" now. Students can make their own learning progress according to their personal situation, and teachers can understand the problems students encounter in their study according to the situation of students doing problems online. Traditional classrooms no longer explain new lessons, but become places where students do homework, explain problems or do experiments.
If the flip classroom is just an antenna, then the emergence of large-scale open online courses is the sublimation of the flip classroom. "Video Re-education" has been further promoted. Large-scale open online courses have opened online courses on a large scale. Facing the wave of global large-scale open online courses, universities in China have also begun to take action. On 20 13, Shanghai took the lead in introducing China's large-scale open online courses and launched the "Shanghai University Curriculum Resources Sharing Platform".
With the rise of large-scale open online courses, the learning mode of "recreating education with video" has been rapidly extended to higher education, and it has progressed to the point where you can get credits by taking large-scale open online courses and enter the correct education. Tsinghua University and Peking University also offer online education courses.
Micro-class is a response to flipping the classroom and an indispensable resource for students' autonomous learning. Micro-course is a micro-course with teaching video as its essence, which is mainly used for students' early learning. At present, micro-courses have begun to affect the information teaching practice in primary and secondary schools in China. The accumulation of micro-course practice will lead to the formation of micro-course group, and the application of micro-course group will form new application data, which is conducive to the innovative application of big data analysis, mining, discovery and prediction. It can be said that the reform in the field of education bears the brunt of the information-based teaching of big data reform.
Is the era of big data a blessing or a curse for education?
People haven't had time to figure out what the information age is, and the data age has quietly arrived. In the face of the concept of big data, everyone has their own opinions. Some people think that the era of big data can let educators really understand students.
Compared with the macro education of traditional data, big data is mainly reflected in the micro level. Big data has turned "empirical" teaching mode into "data service" education mode. Teachers can pay attention to the micro-performance of each student according to the data, and through the analysis of students' relevant data, adjust the education plan in a targeted manner to realize personalized education.
Some people who support big data education believe that education in the era of big data will promote the transformation of traditional teacher-centered teaching methods to student-centered teaching methods, promote the transformation of "actor" teachers to "director" teachers, and promote the transformation of macro groups to micro individuals. For educational researchers, real students can be found by using data.
Another group of people think that big data is "changing the soup without changing the medicine". In fact, it is to use big data and cloud computing as concepts to package the previous things. Although online education is in full swing, there is a state of "applauding and not calling for seats". Take New Oriental as an example. According to public data, by the end of 20 12, the online website of New Oriental had more than100000 registered users. Pan Xin, vice president of New Oriental Online, said that the number of users willing to pay is not high. In 20 12 years, the number of paying users of New Oriental was 200,000, accounting for only 2%.
At present, mainstream online education products only record offline courses and move them online. This model is actually a simple copy of offline learning methods. This way of learning has also spawned some new educational problems: how to ensure that the learning process will not be interrupted, how to determine whether students log in to study, and so on. For online education, only students with good learning initiative and control can use online learning to achieve good learning results, while those who are weak in these aspects will find it difficult to persist for a long time, and the learning effect can be imagined.