Databases, non-majors and collaborative learning: a ternary relationships

  • Authors:

  • Don Goelman

  • Affiliations:

  • Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In data modeling, a ternary relationship is sometimes necessary to express semantics richer than the union of the pairwise binary ones. So too, this paper describes a ternary relationship among three "entity types" in computer science education: databases as the subject, non-computer science majors as the target population, and collaborative learning as the pedagogical approach. While there is extensive research and experience in each binary link, the three-way investigation is new.