In this presentation the audience will be: (a) introduced to the aims and objectives of the DBTechNet initiative, (b) briefed on the DBTech EXT virtual laboratory workshops (VLW), i.e. the educational and training (E&T) content which is freely available over the internet and includes vendor-neutral hands-on laboratory training sessions on key database technology topics, and (c) informed on some...

This paper describes an on-going design-based research project that aims to develop an instructional process to facilitate pre-service teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) development as they learn to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) in their teaching content subjects. In conjunction with an initiative to prepare pre-service teachers for integrat...

Guided by evolutionary psychology and a situational perspective on violence, we generated three hypotheses to investigate whether the percentage of intimate partner homicides by beating, a hands-on homicide method, varies with the victim-offender relationship. We tested these hypotheses with a national database that includes incident-level information on over 50,000 intimate partner homicides. ...

Currently, first-year chemistry students learn about three-dimensional molecular structures using a combination of lectures, tutorials, and practical hands-on experience with molecular chemistry kits. We have developed a basic 3D molecule construction simulation, calledMolyPoly. The system was designed to augment the teaching of organic chemistry by helping students grasp the concepts of chemis...

We demonstrate the use of localized path indexes in generating efficient execution plans for regular path queries. This study is motivated by both the practicality of this class of queries and by the current dearth of scalable solutions for their evaluation. Our proposed solution leverages widely available relational database technology and is often orders of magnitude faster than currently kno...

Practice-based learning activities are an important aspect of education, particularly for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. Their immense importance to STEM curricula is unequivocal and so are the teachers’ and students’ need for support during those activities. However, considering the open-ended and hands-on nature of practice-based learning activities, designi...

This tutorial aims to introduce the benefits of applying a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to serious games developers. For that end, we propose a hands-on session in which we will provide information on state-of-the-art services for serious games and guide developers in rethinking one of their existing games or game ideas using our SOA framework for serious games.

With the proliferation of the mobile use of the web, spatial keyword query (SKQ) services are gaining in importance. However, state-of-the-art SKQ systems do not provide systematic functionality that allows users to ask why some known object is unexpectedly missing from a query result and do not provide an explanation for such missing objects. In this demonstration, we present a system called Y...

Inquiry based learning is a student-centered, active learning approach which is based around activities such as asking questions and solving problems, as opposed to more traditional approaches which tend instead to emphasize the memorizing of factual information and the provision of specific answers to questions set by others, such as teachers and examination boards. Science would seem to provi...

The School of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering of Queensland University of Technology (like many other universities around the world) has recognised the importance of complementing the teaching of signal processing with computer based experiments. A laboratory has been developed to provide a “hands-on” approach to the teaching of signal processing techniques. The motivation for the...