Database EdCom is a teaching and learning community for the study of databases and related domains.
The community will be engaging in developing, reviewing and sharing of: teaching strategies, open resources and tools, evaluation methods and learning resources for instructors and students for teaching and learning of databases. While we decided to make the community specific to teaching databases, in order to catalyze the participants interest, several of the group findings will be relevant for other faculty, teaching assistants and students.
The group will create a public list of cured resources by sharing members knowledge and experiences within a vetted editorial process. Each month the group will address one topic of interest for the participants, to which all the members will be encouraged to contribute. A selected editorial team for that topic will summarize and publish a short article on the topic that will be peer reviewed by other members of the group. The goal is to maintain and further develop such articles as open resources for the community.
Each month the group will address one topic of interest for the participants, to which all the members will be encouraged to contribute. A selected editorial team for that topic will summarize and publish a short article on the topic that will be peer reviewed by other members of the group. The goal is to maintain and further develop such articles as open resources for the community. The group will have both virtual and recorded face to face meetings. Initial proposed examples of topics include: introducing undergraduate research in database courses, project based learning in undergraduate courses, ready to use online resources for distance education classes, supporting adjunct instructors, using active learning methods in teaching databases, available free software tools for designing and implementing databases, student testing strategies, test question pools.
Materials prepared by the community will include: