Oracle Corporation makes its software products available to educational institutions at minimal cost. This tutorial explores options for procuring, installing, and administering an Oracle client/server database in an academic setting, and describes how the Oracle software can be u sed in specific areas in the information systems curriculum. It also presents results of a survey investigating how IS instructors currently use Oracle, and describes the benefits and challenges they are experiencing.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, biology educators were forced to think of ways to communicate with their students, engaging them in science and with the scientific community. For educators using course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs), the challenge to have students perform real science, analyze their work, and present their results to a larger scientific audience was difficult as the world moved online.
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