Animated Courseware Support for Teaching Database Design

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Issue s in Informing Science and Information Technology Volume 6, 2009 Animated Courseware Support for Teaching Database Design Meg Murray and Mario Guimaraes Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA Abstract Database technologies are a core component of computing technology curricula. Their impor-tance will only continue to expand as more and more data are retained in Database systems. An effective Database system is predicated on a good data model. Database Design is the conceptu-alization of an underlying data mode l that progresses from identifying user requirements to graphica lly depicting those requirements and fina lly mapping the graphical models to a set of ta-bles implemented in a phys ical Database system.

Animated Courseware Support 202 ologies such as lectures and textbooks do not appear to be sufficient. Animations have been used in many disciplines, including computer science, where animations exist to support the teaching

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