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Teaching Tip: Incorporating AI Tools into Database Classes
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Xiaoni Zhang – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2025
This teaching tip explores the integration of AI tools into database education. The author describes how instructors can use AI tools to prepare teaching materials and how students can use AI to facilitate database development. The teaching tips provided encompass both course-level objectives and assignment-specific strategies. The inclusion of AI…
Descriptors: Databases, Technology Integration, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills
An Instructional Feedback Technique for Teaching Project Management Tools Aligned With PMBOK
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Goncalves, Rafael Queiroz; von Wangenheim, Christiane A. Gresse; Hauck, Jean C. R.; Zanella, Andreia – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2018
Contribution: An approach is presented to provide contextualized feedback for students using a project management (PM) tool. This approach covers the ten PM knowledge areas, guiding students through the planning of software projects. Background: Because software PM is unfeasible without the support of a PM tool there is a growing demand that these…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teaching Methods, Program Administration, Instructional Innovation
Attitudes of Students towards Learning Objects in Web-Based Language Learning
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Basal, Ahmet; Gurol, Mehmet; Sevindik, Tuncay – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
Language education is important in the rapidly changing world. Every year much effort has spent on preparing teaching materials for language education. Since positive attitudes of learners towards a teaching material enhance the effectiveness of that material, it is important to determine the attitudes of learners towards the material used.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Instructional Materials, Programming, Web Based Instruction
Liberating Learning Object Design from the Learning Style of Student Instructional Designers
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Akpinar, Yavuz – Performance Improvement, 2007
Learning objects are a new form of learning resource, and the design of these digital environments has many facets. To investigate senior instructional design students' use of reflection tools in designing learning objects, a series of studies was conducted using the Reflective Action Instructional Design and Learning Object Review Instrument…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Cognitive Style, Instructional Design, Evaluation Methods
The Effects of Font Size in a Hypertext Computer Based Instruction Environment.
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Chen, Ming-Pu; And Others – 1996
Some of the elements instructional designers must consider when designing screens for computer based instruction (CBI) include legibility, readability, and particularly font size. The purpose of this study was to determine which size font is most effective for CBI. Participants were 163 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in an…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Computer System Design
In-Class Use of Course Webs.
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Rebelsky, Samuel A. – 1998
This paper reports on a study undertaken to examine student usage of course webs (i.e., course materials and resources on the World Wide Web) in classroom situations in which computers are readily available and students are comfortable using hypertext systems. The author prepared course webs for two computer science courses at Grinnell College…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Science Education