Title: Course Description Example
Course: Stage 1 - Getting Started with EdTech > Section: 2. Moodle, Course Description & Reflective Learning Journals

Provided by Vali Issufu (UEM)

This training is driven by the choices that participants need to make about their courses. Let’s take a look at the course that you have brought with you for design or redesign.

Tell us about the essential features of your course and where you expect to face challenges in teaching it.
Here is an example of such a course description: (provided by Eng. Vali Issufu, UEM)

The Database I course presents and discusses the introductory concepts necessary for the creation, storage and availability of data in a computational environment.

The target group of this course are students of the second year of Computer Engineering, who know how to use the computer from the user's point of view.

The main topics are:

  - Requirements elicitation;
  - Conceptual Model
  - Relational Model
  - Normalization
  - Relational Algebra
  - Data Definition and Manipulation with Standard Query Language (SQL)
  - Integrity Restrictions

At the end of the course the student should be able to:

  - Discuss the applicability of the most important computational data models
  - Create a conceptual database model based on the Relational Model
  - Create a physical data model based on the Relational Model
  - Apply concepts of Integrity Constraints
  - Use the SQL language for Data Definition and Manipulation

Assessment structure: The course assessment is based on two written assessments and a group project of the course. The final grade is calculated based on 60% of the written test grade and 40% of the project grade.

Duration & Structure: The course lasts 16 weeks, divided into theoretical, practical and laboratory classes. The course is structured around the Relational model proposed by Edgar Frank Codd in 1970, described in the article "Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks", which dominates the Database market to this day. More recent Data Models with new and diverse applicability are discussed in the Database II course.

Challenges:

- Class usually comprises many students (average 50), and due to its size it is difficult to give attention to all students
- We have only small lab rooms to cope with this class size.
- The course project is fundamental and very demanding. Students must ensure that they complete timely deliveries.