Review of Contributions to the Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Databases (TLAD) Workshops

Abstract This paper presents a review of contributions to the Higher Education Academy’s Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Databases (TLAD) workshops, where academics from the international community have gathered to present, discuss, disseminate, as well as find novel, interesting and useful techniques for improving their teaching, learning and assessment experiences of databases. Particularly, this paper reviews the teaching issues where the academics emphasize areas such as the teaching of the theoretical aspects initially to enable the students to grasp the important concepts and then the practical tools that should be introduced in the database modules. It also reviews learning issues including teamwork and interactive learning. Finally, assessment issues have been discussed which focus on the approaches that these academics use to assess their students.