Presenting Concepts of Big Data in Information Technology Curricula

In the information technology industry today, there has been significant growth in rapid data mining and analytics applications that process very large volumes of data.This calls for adopting Big Data technology in the Information Technology curricula to prepare todays engineer for the industry.This requires aligning existing curriculum to cover topics such as distributed systems, parallel processing and coordination, fault-tolerance, scheduling and load balancing.In this paper we identify core concepts to be include in new courses.We also look at a typical Information Technology curriculum and present an approach of redesigning it to address the need.It identifies ways to extend, modify or replace existing course components to introduce these concepts in both four-year undergraduate and graduate programs.