> Your class just attended a field trip. They seemed to enjoy it, how engaged were they in reality? The old-fashioned way: A show of hands, a questionnaire, or

> Your class just attended a field trip. They seemed to enjoy it, how engaged were they in reality? The old-fashioned way: A show of hands, a questionnaire, or perhaps a quiz to test learning. The big data way: Give students access to tablets, and monitor their social media or email data. Really? They're proposing the mining of email? > The kind of education-related big data you see will one of the following: System-wide Data: This includes grades, disciplinary records and attendance. This data can be used to draw inferences that can inform recommendations <snip> Big data?