Semantic analytics

Programming language

Data science

Analytics

Educational data mining

Web service

Software analytics

Software construction

Learning analytics

Data Web

Data analysis

Software system

Educational research

Big data

Data mining

Computer science

World Wide Web

Sociology

Social science

Cultural analytics

Software

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

This survey is an updated and improved version of the previous one published in 2013 in this journal with the title data mining in education. It reviews in a comprehensible and very general way how Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics have been applied over educational data. In the last decade, this research area has evolved enormously and a wide range of related terms are now used in the bibliography such as Academic Analytics, Institutional Analytics, Teaching Analytics, Data-Driven Education, Data-Driven Decision-Making in Education, Big Data in Education, and Educational Data Science. This paper provides the current state of the art by reviewing the main publications, the key milestones, the knowledge discovery cycle, the main educational environments, the specific tools, the free available datasets, the most used methods, the main objectives, and the future trends in this research area.

Educational data mining and learning analytics: An updated survey