The Big Data eCourse can be bought in a few variants:
The online variant--> All the material is online
The online and offline variant--> The eCourse material is also send in a paper variant for a bit more
The variant correcting homework--> With this variant all questions from the student can be answered through email and their homework is corrected with feedback. I correct the homework of the lessons 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Besides questions some of the lessons also have cases where the students can practice with analyzing Big Data. Another teacher corrects lesson 3 and the cases 1, 2, 3 and 4
The last option is to do an exam at the end of the eCourse--> This exam is done by the student at home and all the eCourse material can be used to answer the questions and the cases in the exam, 'open boek examen'.
All these options can be combined or not. It is up to the student to choose what suits them best. More information on the variants can be found on the Laudius platform, where the Big Data eCourse is situated.
All students also get the book ‘Succes met Big Data’. This book is used through all the lessons. Each lesson uses one or more chapters of the book. The cases are extra and are not directly related to the book. With the cases the student practice the analysis of Big Data. In pdfs and videos the students can find which analyses there are in Big Data and examples how to do them.
As a bonus all students can use the Forum to ask questions and share Big Data news, articles, research, or other Big Data information. I am one of the teachers and regularly share information about Big Data in the Forum.
The Dutch government has a Stap-budget at the moment. This Stap-budget is open for use a few times a year. The variant with homework can be bought with the Stap-budget and is than ‘free’. The government pays then for the eCourse Big Data. For more information about this option see Laudius and the government information about Stap-budget. This option is not longer available. The goverment terminated it not because it wasn't a succes, but because of the hassle to apply for the Stapbudget.