Open AccessA Proposed Quality Assurance Intelligent Model for Higher Education Institutions in Saudi Arabia
Author(s) -
Abdelmonim Artoli,
Hassan Mathkour,
Alaaeldin M. Hafez
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the journal of quality in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2028-1897
DOI - 10.37870/joqie.v3i3.92
Subject(s) - business intelligence , accreditation , higher education , analytics , quality (philosophy) , computer science , engineering management , big data , knowledge management , service (business) , business , business model , quality assurance , information system , data science , marketing , political science , engineering , data mining , philosophy , epistemology , law
Recent growth and demands for dealing with increasing complexity in management, evaluation, and accreditation of higher educational institutions have led keynote academic institutions and higher education authorities to adopt and try nonconventional solutions known to business firms to account for massive data management. The development in new practices and merging technology for analytics and information management have offered different solutions such as data warehousing, big data, and business intelligence. Such solutions are gradually being installed in a number of renown universities. Due to the difference between the two firms (higher education and business industry) in nature and aims, tailor-made solutions are needed.
This paper shares authors' experience in designing and implementing an educational information system in the College of Computers and Information systems at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. The paper also highlights differences between educational intelligence and business intelligence systems. Higher education implementation aspects ensuring suitable data query service to ease the running of high educational institutions are discussed and recognized.