Empowering Online Learning or Database Concepts

Empowering Online Learning

Author: Curtis J Bonk

This is an essential resource for anyone designing or facilitating online learning. It introduces an easy, practical model (read, reflect, display, and do) that will show online educators how to deliver content in ways that benefit all types of learners (visual, auditory, observational, and kinesthetic) from a wide variety of backgrounds and skill levels. With a solid theoretical foundation and concrete guidance and examples, this book can be used as a handy reference, a professional guidebook, or a course text. The authors intend for it to help online instructors and instructional designers as well as those contemplating such positions design, develop, and deliver learner-centered online instruction.

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Database Concepts

Author: David Kroenk

Written by one of the world's leading database authorities, Database Concepts, 4e, introduces the essential concepts students need to create and use small databases.  The new edition is updated for access 2007.

Database Fundamentals; The Relational Model; Structured Query Language; Database Design; Data Modeling and the Entity-Relationship Model; Database Management; Database Administration; Database Processing Applications; Database Processing for Business Intelligence

For anyone looking for an up-to-date book that covers the essential concepts on small database management.

Table of Contents:

PART I – Database Fundamentals
CHAPTER 1 -Getting Started
CHAPTER 2 -The Relational Model
CHAPTER 3 - Structured Query Language

PART II - Database Design
CHAPTER 4 – Data Modeling and the Entity-Relationship Model
CHAPTER 5- Database Design

PART III - Database Management
CHAPTER 6 - Database Administration
CHAPTER 7 - Database Processing Applications
CHAPTER 8 - Database Processing for Business Intelligence

APPENDIX A - Getting Started with Microsoft SQL Server Express Edition
APPENDIX B - Getting Started with Sun Microsystems MySQL
APPENDIX C - SQL Views
**ON-LINE APPENDIX D – The Access Workbench — Section D — Microsoft Access 2003 User-Level Security in Access 2007