Incorporating animation courseware into the teaching of complex database concepts: conference workshop
Meg Coffin Murray, Mário André Mayerhofer Guimarães · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2008
Teaching for conceptual understanding is challenging and for many students, commonly used teaching methodologies such as lectures and textbooks are not sufficient to aid in the learning or assimilation of abstract concepts. In many disciplines, including computer science, animations and visualizations have been touted as a means to provide additional instructional support to convey complex and dynamic topics. Through an NSF funded CCLI grant, we have developed a set of animations to support the teaching of database concepts. Current modules available cover areas such as database design, interactive SQL, stored procedures and triggers, transactions and database security. The animations were developed to complement, not substitute for, introductory database textbooks and DBMS products. The software is designed to be fairly intuitive with a low learning curve for faculty. The software is available at no cost and has been made freely available at http://adbc.kennesaw.edu.