Teaching big data analysis at Technical University in Kosice in business information systems study program

In this paper we describe the actual state of the big data analysis and related technologies teaching in Business information systems study program at the Technical University Kosice, Slovakia. We have been teaching at the Department of cybernetics and artificial intelligence, various courses specialized on data analysis, machine learning as well as knowledge discovery in databases. Advances and progress in technologies during recent years proved that there is a need to extend the teaching process by reflecting the new and emerging technologies, tools and approaches. During the last complex accreditation process we have proposed a new course specifically dedicated to the area of big data analysis and related technologies. The main objective of this paper is to summarize the motivation to include the newly introduced course within our curricula, as well as to describe the outline of the learning objectives, structure and content of the proposed course with focus on the design of the practical lab sessions.