Artificial Intelligence has changed many aspects of lives since it provides the technological services and tools that help to make decisions in everyday life. The present paper aims to highlight the role of education data mining in improving the quality of the educational process. Education data mining techniques can discover information that can assist educators in establishing pedagogical decisions when designing or modifying an environment or teaching approach. Also, education data mining can help predict students' failure or dropout. So present paper going to define educational data mining, why educational data mining is important, the goals of using educationanl data mining, and where educational data mining can be applied. Later, the paper develops some recent examples of studies that have had utilized educational data mining to enhance the educational process and predictive models that help educators in making  educational decisions and building suitable prevention programs to improve the Quality of educational process.