Course overview
The course Database Management System introduces the management of database systems. The course emphasizes the understanding of the fundamentals of relational systems including data models, database architectures, and database manipulations. The course also provides an understanding of new developments and trends such as Internet database environment and data warehousing. The course uses a problem-based approach to learning.
Participants in piloting
The course enrolled 60 students in the 3rd of undergraduate studies. The course is an elective in the formal curriculum of the Department of Computer Science of School of Information and Communication Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology. This course is designed to help student understanding of the course material, his/her success on exams, assignments and projects.
Timeframe
Fall 2019.
Use of ALIEN services and tools
Students learn according to PBL and Active Learning method.
In the course database management systems, students will be introduced to the models of data storage and do exercises to understand these models. Besides, students are introduced to practical information management systems, and students will choose to organize groups to work from 3-5 students in a group. Each group will write a description of the requirement, analyze, and design system to be implemented; then, the groups will present to the whole class to exchange and contribute. This presentation helps students understand more when approaching the actual information system. After the analysis and design processes are completed, the next step is software development that uses a database management system to store data, helping students better understand how to solve specific problems. After completing the project, students will report the results to the whole class, and teachers will evaluate each member’s contributions by asking questions for the members.
During the course, students discuss in groups, with guidance from teacher and teaching assistants.
The ALIEN project provided a platform for the publication of database practical exercises for the benefit of wide engineering higher education audiences.
