Full bibliographic information of source
Bai, Y., & Wei, C. (2018). Impact of Data Analysis on the Business Administration Education Reform in Teaching Style.
Stated research question and thesis
The paper addresses the stimulus that big data can give to the reformation of business administration teaching, learning, and academic research (Bai & Wei, 2018). The authors expect to find evidence on big data being a major driving force in this field.
Major argument and refutations
The authors suggest that big data and university education are interdependent, indicating a need for concurrent development. The researchers establish that there are several ways in which big data influences business administration education. First, it helps overcome time and space limits, providing the increased influx of students (and, simultaneously, data) through online education. Secondly, it allows the facilitation of individual educational experience through adaptive learning. It also enhances opportunities for comprehensive data sourcing for teaching purposes. Big data appears to be an important impetus for management, research, and service reform in education.
Implications of research
As for practical implications, big data can be of major help to students by assisting in university application decision-making by providing comprehensive information on tuition fees, graduates employment rate etc. Moreover, adaptive learning ensures that students have specifically tailored academic experience along with better tools for self-awareness. It might also be of major help to teachers by giving them better performance evaluation and academic failure risk assessment tools.
Critique of author’s work including methods
The paper lacks a methodology section hindering an objective interpretation of the results. Compared to some other studies, it does not attempt to provide specific guidelines and recommendations as a part of the conclusion (Huda et al., 2017). However, this paper’s advantage is that it covers a broad range of educational aspects big data can be employed in.
Research questions raised
- What are the relationship between big data and higher education?
- What kind of reforms in business administration education can big data stimulate?
- What are the implications of applying big data to business administration education in terms of teaching, learning, and management reforms?
Quotes that can be used towards mentorship and business
“The big data provides new teaching methods such as multimedia web-based teaching, remote teaching and computer-aided teaching for the university education, thus promoting the popularization of the university education and breaking down the limitation of time and space” (Bai & Wei, 2017, p. 2127).
“Government policy and financial support, promotion by business groups, strategic insights of the universities and colleges as well as social needs of big data professionals are the four aspects that influence the big data’s deep development in higher education.” (Bai &Wei, 2017, p. 2128).
References
Bai, Y., & Wei, C. (2018). Impact of Data Analysis on the Business Administration Education Reform in Teaching Style. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 18(5), 2124–2133.
Huda, M., Maseleno, A., Shahrill, M., Jasmi, K. A., Mustari, I., & Basiron, B. (2017). Exploring adaptive teaching competencies in big data era. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 12(03), 68-83.