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Teaching Students to Think Like Historians--The Great American History Machine.
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Miller, David W. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1995
Computer software designed to help college students of history think like historians is described. The software enables students to search for patterns in large bodies of evidence using interactive access, through a map interface, to historical county-level United States census data. The software and a history course in which the software has been…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Databases, Educational Technology
Providing Just-in-Time Help to Case Tool Users.
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Boulet, Marie-Michele – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 1994
An intelligent advisor computer program designed to assist undergraduate computer science students in producing an entity-relationship diagram, a conceptual model of a database. The advisor helps students perform modeling exercises and monitors student performance. (MSE)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Computer Software, Databases
The Social and Organizational Life Data Archive (SOLDA).
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Reed, Ken; Blunsdon, Betsy; Rimme, Malcolm – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2000
Outlines the rationale and design of the Social and Organizational Life Data Archive (SOLDA), an on-line collection of survey and other statistical data relevant to research in the fields of management, organizational studies, industrial relations, marketing, and related social sciences. The database uses CD-ROM technology and the World Wide Web…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Higher Education, Optical Data Disks