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Worldwide, evidence-based education, institutional research, and learning analytics have become key terms in higher education in the twenty-first century. In order to realize these key terms, a great deal of data is necessary. With the development of information and communication technology (ICT) and the accompanying evolution of learning management systems, large amounts of educational data can be accumulated more easily and quickly than ever before. In this paper, we discuss how ICT can be used effectively and efficiently to improve the quality of higher education. We believe that one of the answers is the immediate establishment of a new concept called “eduinformatics,” which we proposed in 2018. Eduinformatics is a novel field of education that combines both education and informatics. Eduinformatics not only deals with students’ data but also provides new analytical methods and concepts to handle data in education, similar to bioinformatics. To investigate the significance of eduinformatics, we introduce some practical examples from Kobe Tokiwa University in Japan, and we present results of recent eduinformatics. From these examples, we show that the construction of ICT-based eduinformatics will lead to the improvement of the quality of higher education and higher education reform.
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Takamatsu, K. et al. (2022). Eduinformatics: A New Academic Field Needed in the Age of Information and Communication Technology. In: Nagar, A.K., Jat, D.S., Marín-Raventós, G., Mishra, D.K. (eds) Intelligent Sustainable Systems. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 333. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6309-3_15
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