Abstract
The learning management systems (LMS) in the education sector is widely used and it evolved nowadays. It led to enormous and several of data from the students' activities using the online content. It generates a large amount of wasted and unused data and these issues cannot be
processed and supported by the traditional learning analytics. The sophisticated technology of Big Data and also became a recent trend now is vastly evolved and relates to data-driven decision making. It is known as big data analytics and significance to apply for e-Learning in higher education
institution. This paper reviews and explores the use of Big Data in e-Learning as the fundamental of Big Data and e-Learning and its' impact. Big Data Analytics has been proved as an effective approach for educational data mining and learning analytics.