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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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Zhan, Wei; Porter, Jay R.; Morgan, Joseph A. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2014
This paper discusses the design and implementation of laboratories and course projects using LabVIEW in an instrumentation course. The pedagogical challenge is to enhance students' learning of digital communication using LabVIEW. LabVIEW was extensively used in the laboratory sessions, which better prepared students for the course projects. Two…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Courseware, Database Management Systems
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Shen, Zhigang; Jensen, Wayne; Wentz, Timothy; Fischer, Bruce – Education Sciences, 2012
The cross-disciplinary nature of energy-efficient building design has created many challenges for architecture, engineering and construction instructors. One of the technical challenges in teaching sustainable building design is enabling students to quantitatively understand how different building designs affect a building's energy performance.…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Energy Education, Energy Management
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Ge, Xun; Huang, Kun; Dong, Yifei – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2010
A semester-long ethnography study was carried out to investigate project-based learning in a graduate software engineering course through the implementation of an Open-Source Software Development (OSSD) learning environment, which featured authentic projects, learning community, cognitive apprenticeship, and technology affordances. The study…
Descriptors: Investigations, Open Source Technology, Graduate Students, Computer Software
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Smart, L. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 1988
Describes how the database software QUEST was used with 10- to 11-year-old students in London by utilizing a multidisciplinary, project-based approach. The collection, collation, and interpretation of data are emphasized, and areas of educational development that benefited are discussed, including language, self responsibility, and hypothesis…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Database Management Systems