Big Data can become an indispensable tool for transforming the education system, modernizing approaches, narrowing existing gaps and introducing expertise to improve the efficiency of the educational system. Today, the task of presenting technologies for working with big data is considered relevant, which is aimed at the development of educational systems through the identification of formed patterns in the education system. The author of the article defines the methodological aspects of the implementation of big data technology in education, as well as methods of working with them. The main approach in this case is modeling the development of the educational system with the inclusion of regulation measures based on the results of the analysis of the identified formed patterns.