Database Disciplinary commons

Context

The data handling for websites module is being taught as part of a degree in business computing at city college Norwich. The short Wikipedia article gives an idea of the nature of the college.

Norwich city college is one of the UK's largest further education colleges; the Higher Education is delivered in a Further Education institution, a situation called "HE in FE". The HE Academy offers an excellent discussion of the peculiarities of this situation on its Information and Computer Sciences subsite.

As in every institution, the value obtained from public money is a major question. The graph below shows the contact time allocated to deliver a ten credit (or ten credit worth of a) module in the past ten years. The trend reflects changes in funding successive courses in the period.

Simultaneously with pressure on funding, a drive for transparency has led to detailed documentation; the example lesson plan shows a part of the preparation that is required for internal observations.

The module takes an important role within the overall course, being in the final year and relating multiple past modules. The spreadsheet shows the place of the module within the degree course.

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