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

TLAD 2009

6th July 2009
University of Birmingham

In conjunction with the
26th British National Conference on Databases and
the Higher Education Academy

Provisional Programme

Monday 6th July 2009

From 08:30: Registration

09:20–09:30: Open and Welcome

Full Paper Session 1

09:30–10:00: Alastair Monger, Sheila Baron and Jing Lu (Southampton Solent University)
More on Oracle APEX for Teaching and Learning

10:00–10:30: Christian Goldberg (Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg)
Do You Know SQL? About Semantic Errors in Database Queries

10:30–11:00: Richard Cooper (University of Glasgow)
Coursework Design for Teaching Distributed Data Intensive Internet Application Design

11:00–11:30: Coffee Break

Invited talk

11:30–12:30: Karen C. Davis and Angela Arndt (University of Cincinnati)
Assessing the Effectiveness of Interactive Learning in Database Design

12:30–13:30: Lunch

Short Paper Session

13:30–13:50: Sue Barnes and Joanne Kuzma (University of Worcester)
Empirical Case Study in Teaching First-Year Database Students

13:50–14:10: Carsten Kleiner (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover)
A Concept for Automated Grading of Exercises in Introductory Database System Courses

14:10–14:30: Anne James (Coventry University), Steve Bussell (Mercato Solutions) and Peter Robbins (Probrand)
New Real-world Application to Enhance Database Teaching

14:30–15:00: Tugrul Esendal and Matthew Dean (De Montfort University)
A Model to Make the Learning of Internet Programming with Databases Easy

15:00–15:20: Coffee Break

15:20–15:30: Mike Flower (Ingres Europe Ltd)
Ingres Presentation

Full Paper Session 2

15:30–16:00: Karen Renaud, Huda Al Shuaily and Richard Cooper (University of Glasgow)
Facilitating Efficacious Transfer of Database Knowledge and Skills

16:00–16:30: Pirjo Moen (University of Helsinki)
Concept Maps as a Device for Learning Database Concepts

16:30–17:00: General Discussion and Close