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COURSE GUIDE DESCRIPTION
You must read this Course Guide carefully from the beginning to the end. It tells you briefly what the course is about and how you can work your way through the course material. It also suggests the amount of time you are likely to spend in order to complete the course successfully. Please keep on referring to Course Guide as you go through the course material as it will help you to clarify important study components or points that you might miss or overlook.
INTRODUCTION
CBDB 3203 Database Implementation is a one of the course offered by the Faculty of Information Technology and Multimedia Communication, Open University Malaysia. This course is worth3 credit hours and should be covered over 8 to 15 weeks.
COURSE AUDIENCE
This course is targeted to all the IT students especially those are specialising in Computer System or Information System who needs to understand how database developed using entity relationship approach. Students enrolled in other ITrelated specialisation also will find this course useful as this course will answer many of their questions regarding database system development.
Allocation of Learning Hours for Self-Managed Learning
Students should spend at least 120 learning hours for this course according to OUMs standard which allocates 40 hours per credit. Students are advised to use the following time allocation as a guideline:
COURSE GUIDE
Table 1: Estimation of Time Accumulation of Study Hours Study Activities Briefly go through the course content and participate in initial discussions Study the module Attend 3 to 5 tutorial sessions Online Participation Revision Assignment(s), Test(s) and Examination(s) TOTAL STUDY HOURS ACCUMULATED Study Hours 3 60 10 12 15 20 120
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. 2. 3. 4. Describe the meaning and application of SQL and its importance. Use the Microsoft Access effectively to develop a complete database. Define the meaning of transaction and its benefits. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of web as database platform.
PRE-REQUISITE KNOWLEDGE
Student are required to have taken the course of Data Analysis and Modeling and expected to have basis knowledge on the windows operation system and Microsoft Access application.
TEXT ARRANGEMENT GUIDE
Before you go through this module, it is important that you note the text arrangement. Understanding the text arrangement should help you to organise your study of this course to be more objective and more effective. Generally, the text arrangement for each topic is as follows:
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Learning Outcomes: This section refers to what you should achieve after you had completely gone through a topic. As you go through each topic, you should frequently refer your reading back to these given learning outcomes. By doing this, you can continuously gauge your progress of digesting the topic. Self-Check: This component of the module is inserted at strategic locations throughout the module. It is inserted after you had gone through one sub-section or sometimes a few sub-sections. It usually comes in a form of a question that may require you to stop your reading and start thinking. When you come across this component, try to reflect what you had already gone through. When you attempt to answer the question prompted, you should be able to gauge whether you had understand what you had read clearly, vaguely or worse you might find out that you had not comprehended or retained the sub-section(s) that you had just gone through. Most of the time, the answer to the question can be found directly from the module itself. Activity: Like Self-Check, activities are also placed at various locations or junctures throughout the module. Compared to Self-Check, Activity can appear in various forms such as questions, short case studies or it may even ask you to conduct an observation or research. Activity may also ask your opinion and evaluation on a given scenario. When you come across an Activity, you should try to widen what you had gathered from the module and introduce it to real situations. You should engage yourself in higher order thinking where you might be required to analyse, synthesise and evaluate instead of just having to recall and define. Summary: You can find this component at the end of each topic. This component assists you to recap the whole topic. By going through summary, you should be able to gauge your knowledge retention level. Should you find points inside the summary that you do not fully understand; it would be a good idea for you to revisit the details from the module. Key Terms: This component can be found at the end of each topic. You should go through this component so as to remind yourself on important terms or jargons used throughout the module. Should you find terms here that you are not able to explain, you should look for the terms from the module. References: References is where a list of relevant and usually useful textbooks, journals, articles, electronic contents or sources can be found. This list can appear in a few locations such as in the Course Guide (at References section), at the end of every topic or at the back of the module. You are encouraged to read and refer to the suggested sources to elicit the additional information needed as well as to enhance you overall understanding of the course.
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ASSESSMENT STRATEGY
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