I want to know under which category does learning analytics fall e.g. ( data science / big data / data analytics / data mining)
Hello,
Learning analytics could be considered part of any of these categories. Could you tell us more about why you are asking the question?
Best regards,
Elizabeth
I am just interested to know more about LA so i wanted to know its a subset of which science so i can read more in-depth about it
Hi Proud,
LA is one of the disciplines that use data to study how learning processes. Another popular and related discipline is Educational Data Mining (EDM), both are related to the fields you mentioned in your original post. The main difference is that LA generally approaches studies from an educational point of view and it is more related to educational sciences, while EDM approaches studies from a computer science point of view and it is more related to data mining and computing sciences.
This paper is about the relation between these two disciplines: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2330661