Digital transformation in higher education: Big data and education intelligence platforms

The accumulation of data in the college setting, plus better hardware and software for putting it to work, means the education community can now make better decisions, retain and educate students with greater success and position themselves for growth in a world of changing demographics, economics and environmental concerns. Here's a look at digital transformation in higher education, and how it is improving it. Kicking off Information Age's Digital Transformation month, we look at everything you need to know about what is digital transformation in business; the challenges, the technologies and above all, how to succeed There are two very big (and very old) problems with the communal learning environment -- the classroom -- that technology is slowly helping us solve. Artificial intelligence is already helping to bring both of these shortcomings of traditional education back into balance. Because colleges and universities increasingly use digital platforms to present course materials and facilitate exams, AI services could easily interface with these dashboards to provide professors and other faculty with detailed and highly useful information.