OPEN DATA COURSE PROJECTS IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

This paper discusses the exploitation of open data in course projects for business information students. Open data has been used for several years in teaching business intelligence for second-year students of business information technology. Alternatives for using open data would be the use of teacher-created data, educational example data from a commercial software provider or proprietary data from a company. All of the aforementioned data types prove to be challenging when the goal is to offer students project-based learning with authentic and reuse permitting data. This paper provides a description of a model for a course on business intelligence that extensively uses open data. It presents an example of a successful course project implementing the model. Lastly, the experiences and feedback from all stakeholders that took part in the course implementation are presented.