Teradata University Network: A Resource for Preparing and Teaching Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Courses

By (re-)using teaching materials, cases, assignments / solutions, and software resources provided by Teradata University Network (TUN), a free Internet portal for database, data warehousing and business intelligence, lecturers can prepare and teach high-quality courses with less effort, can benefit from their peers' experience and can actively contribute to an active IT education community. In this paper, a detailed overview of the contents of TUN is given, information about getting access and integrating new materials is provided, and different forms of using TUN in academic teaching are explained. Advantages and disadvantages of the TUN concept are discussed, and suggestions for future extensions are made.