Education Data Science: Past, Present, Future

• Published in: AERA open Vol. 7; no. 1
• Main Authors: McFarland, Daniel A., Khanna, Saurabh, Domingue, Benjamin W., Pardos, Zachary A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 2021; Sage Publications Ltd; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Computation; Data Collection; Data science; Definitions; Education; Educational History; Educational Research; Educational Trends; Learning Analytics; Measurement; Natural Language Processing; Network Analysis; Prediction; Statistics; network analysis; data science; natural language processing; machine learning; learning analytics; data mining

This AERA Open special topic concerns the large emerging research area of education data science (EDS). In a narrow sense, EDS applies statistics and computational techniques to educational phenomena and questions. In a broader sense, it is an umbrella for a fleet of new computational techniques bei...