Abstract: The arrival of the big data era has accelerated the transformation and development of China’s higher education continuing education.At this stage,higher education continuing education still has the problems of solidified education mode,lack of precise resources,utilitarian educational process and insufficient power supply of online curriculum resources.Empower continuing education for higher education through big data,develop education alliances,establish big data thinking,deeply tap the value of big data,and build a learner profile,which will help solve the imbalance between supply and demand of continuing education for higher education,and the problems of improving the quality of continuing education for higher education to accelerate the curriculum reform of continuing education for higher education.

Key words: higher education continuing education, big data, value, path