CALL FOR PAPERS

TLAD 2009 - 7th International Workshop on Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Databases

6th July 2009

University of Birmingham, UK

The teaching of databases is central to all Computing Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems and Information Technology courses. For the previous six years, TLAD workshops have brought together those teaching database modules in order to share good learning, teaching and assessment practice and to explore which methods are appropriate to database modules.

The seventh workshop will be held on the day before the British National Conference on Databases in Birmingham and this year the workshop will concentrate on novel teaching and assessment approaches for database and database related modules, as well as covering other issues related to the teaching, learning and assessment of databases. It is intended that the workshop will include plenty of time for discussion this year, and so contributions are sought particularly in the areas of (but not restricted to):

• Novel teaching areas and their relationship to databases;
• Databases and enterprise level computing;
• Creating suitable curricula for the rapidly evolving ways in which database technology is used;
• Use of appropriate and novel assessment techniques;
• Use of appropriate and novel database technologies to enrich the student experience;
• Ensuring that theory and practice are balanced in database teaching;
• Exploiting innovative teaching methods in order to enhance the student learning experience;
• Exploiting effective learning and teaching mechanisms for distance learning;
• Pedagogical and organisational frameworks and paradigms;
• Adaptivity in learning systems;
• Integrating the teaching of databases from schools, through universities to the CPD of those in employment;
• Teaching of internet programming and their use of databases;
• Teaching of ubiquitous and pervasive application programming and their use of databases;
• Relationship between XML and databases;
• Teaching methods for data mining, data warehousing and OLAP.

Submissions

We would again like to receive contributions from those who have an involvement in teaching or developing learning materials in all forms of education who have considered the above issues and have some thoughts or solutions to offer. Research papers, demonstrations, panel and discussion topics are welcome.

Please send all submissions (papers, demonstration descriptions or panel/discussion group ideas) to tlad@sunderland.ac.uk. All submissions should be made as PDF or MS Word documents. The proceedings will be published by the Higher Education Academy.

Additional Publishing Opportunity

In addition to the proceedings being published by HEA there is an opportunity for prospective participants to contribute to a "workshop overview paper" which will be included in the BNCOD 2009 proceedings which will be published by Springer Verlag. The contents of the overview paper will be based on accepted abstracts. Authors of particularly pertinent abstracts will be invited to co-author the overview paper, provided they will be participating in the workshop. Abstracts of around 500 words should be submitted to tlad@sunderland.ac.uk by 27th March 2009. You may include up to 3 citations of relevant previous work to support your abstract. Accepted abstracts will feed into the overview paper and the relevant citations will make up its references section. It is expected that authors of accepted abstracts will participate in the workshop. Late submissions of abstracts will not be accepted for the overview paper on account of publishing deadlines which are very tight. If you intend participating and would like to contribute your work to the overview paper it would be helpful if you could notify your intention to tlad@sunderland.ac.uk as soon as possible. (Submitting a full paper for the workshop by the later date does not necessarily depend on having contributed to the overview paper.)

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