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Dunn, Paul; Miller, Robert E. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2022
This teaching case describes the functionality of a system employing IoT sensors to monitor part levels for a fictitious auto parts manufacturer. Data from the sensors are used to populate a centralized database and generate a dashboard for management. The system also generates tiered alerts to notify part runners and managers of pending part…
Descriptors: Database Design, Data Analysis, Manufacturing, Internet
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Miller, Robert E.; Dunn, Paul – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2018
This teaching case describes the functionality of an applicant processing system designed for a fictitious hotel chain. The system detailed in the case includes a webform where applicants complete and submit job applications. The system also includes a desktop application used by hotel managers and Human Resources to track applications and process…
Descriptors: Job Application, Hospitality Occupations, Computer System Design, Online Systems
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Pratt, Renée M. E.; Smatt, Cindi T.; Wynn, Donald E. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2017
This applied database exercise utilizes a scenario-based case study to teach the basics of Microsoft Access and database management in introduction to information systems and introduction to database course. The case includes background information on a start-up business (i.e., Carol's Travel Club), description of functional business requirements,…
Descriptors: Tourism, Database Management Systems, Database Design, Information Systems
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Baugh, Jeanne M. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2015
All Computer Information Systems programs require a database course for their majors. This paper describes an approach to such a course in which real world examples, both design projects and actual database application projects are incorporated throughout the semester. Students are expected to apply the traditional database concepts to actual…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Computer Science Education, Information Systems, Databases
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Irwin, Gretchen; Wessel, Lark; Blackman, Harvey – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2012
This case describes a database redesign project for the United States Department of Agriculture's National Animal Germplasm Program (NAGP). The case provides a valuable context for teaching and practicing database analysis, design, and implementation skills, and can be used as the basis for a semester-long team project. The case demonstrates the…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Genetics, Animals, Animal Husbandry
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Borges, Jose; Dias, Teresa Galvao; Cunha, Joao Falcao E. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2009
In BSc/MSc engineering programmes at Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), the need to provide students with teamwork experiences close to a real world environment was identified as an important issue. A new group-formation method that aims to provide an enriching teamwork experience is proposed. Students are asked to answer a…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Projects, Undergraduate Students, Teamwork
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Steiger, David M. – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2008
This case focuses on learning by applying the four integrating mechanisms of Nonaka's knowledge creation theory: socialization, externalization, combination and internalization. In general, such knowledge creation and internalization (i.e., learning) is critical to database students since they will be expected to apply their specialized database…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Epistemology, Information Technology, Databases
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Newman, Judith M. – Language Arts, 1989
Describes a database course project which engages students in designing and developing their own data files. Asserts that the discussions which take place as students collect, organize, share their data, and consider ethical issues which arise from the proliferation of information systems, are most important. (RAE)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Study, Database Design, Databases
King, Ronald S.; Rainwater, Stephen B. – 2002
This paper describes a methodology for use in teaching an introductory Database Management System (DBMS) course. Students master basic database concepts through the use of a multiple component project implemented in both relational and associative data models. The associative data model is a new approach for designing multi-user, Web-enabled…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer System Design, Database Design, Database Management Systems
Edelson, Daniel; O'Neill, D. Kevin – 1994
The Collaboratory Notebook is a networked hypermedia database that allows students to collaborate on scientific inquiries across boundaries of time and space. Developed as part of the Learning Through Collaborative Visualization (CoVis) networking testbed, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, this software expands on the idea of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Software Development, Courseware
Morrison, James L. – 1989
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a seminar on planning and policy analysis is offered for doctoral students who wish to conduct planning and forecasting studies for their doctoral dissertations or who simply wish to learn such techniques. One of the major projects of the seminar is the development of an environmental scanning…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Uses in Education, Course Content, Course Descriptions
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Holt, Pol William – Social Education, 1998
Describes the work of four Wyoming high school students who created a CD-ROM collection of Oregon Trail documents for use by fourth graders. The students reviewed 60 boxes of diaries, government documents, prints, and artifacts, becoming historians themselves as they created the electronic database. Includes photographs and illustrations. (MJP)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning), Database Design, Databases