Big Data provides an opportunity to educational Institutions to use their Information Technology resources strategically to improve educational quality and guide students to higher rates of completion, and to improve student persistence and outcomes. This paper explores the attributes of big data that are relevant to educational institutions, investigates the factors influencing adoption of big data and analytics in learning institutions and seeks to establish the limiting factors hindering use of big data in Institutions of higher learning. The study has been conducted through a desk search and reviewed sources of literature including scientific research journals and reports. The paper is based on desk research. The sources of literature that were reviewed included scientific research articles and journals, conference reports and theses. Online journals found on the internet were also examined with the search being broadened by Google Scholar where the following keywords were used "big data", "developing countries", "education systems" and "clustering". The paper concludes that Big Data is important since it offers Universities opportunities to their Information Technology resources strategically to improve educational quality and guide students, colleges and universities see value in analytics; and therefore recommends that these institutions carry out investments in analytics programs and in people to have relevant data science. This is because Big Data can afford educational institutions opportunities to shape a modern and dynamic education system, in which every individual student can have the maximum benefit from, and can greatly contribute towards improving the quality of education

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Abstract:Information Technology has penetrated nearly all aspects of our daily lives such that relationships associated with individuals and organizations are digitally enabled and mediated. Advances in IT have led to changes in the way religious worship has traditionally been done, ushering in a new age of worship that is augmented by or anchored on a digital platform. The paper aimed at investigating societal implications of IT use in religion and to better understand the ways in which IT affects modernization of religion in developing countries. The objectives of the paper were to establish the types of IT applications being used in religion, the co-existence of IT and religious tradition and how use of IT affects the future of religion. The study was conducted through a desk search. The paper concludes that religion and technology have had some form of inter dependence on one another, and therefore for modernization of religion IT will increasingly play an important role. Religion must adopt ways to utilize IT positively while shunning negative aspects that IT can be used for in religion such as propagation of fundamentalism and extremism through IT.

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