Abstract
This Tutorial presents the new challenges raised by the e-Learning
application area to the database research community. It presents
e-learning as an important application area for Database technology
and discusses
the existing requirements for storing and managing learning
instructional contents. Its main goal is to show that the database
research community has much to contribute to the solution of
existing problems in e-learning.
Maria Helena Lima Baptista Braz
DECivil/ICIST/Technical University of Lisbon
Portugal
Biography
Maria Helena Braz is an Assistant Professor at IST - Technical
University of Lisbon. Her main research areas are Databases
and e-Learning and she is a member of the Information and Design
Support Systems Research Group and also responsible for the
e-learning research area at ICIST (ICIST is a R&D division
of IST). Recently she has been involved in two main broad projects:
eLO-Compose and Elearn-Civil. Briefly, the former is related
to composing classes from available learning objects, while
the later is related to e-learning technology applied to Civil
Engineering undergraduate courses.
Rubens Nascimento Melo
TecBd/Computer Science Dep.
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Biography
Rubens Melo is a well-known senior researcher and professor
in the Database field at Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
(PUC-Rio) and recently has been involved in e-Learning research
and courses development. He is also a coordinator of the international
project "PARTNERSHIP IN GLOBAL LEARNING" involving
several Universities. This project develops a multimedia e-Learning
Object Oriented Distributed Heterogeneous Database environment
for the partners. He has been the Distance Education Coordinator
of
PUC-Rio for the last 3 years.
Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira
TecBD/Computer Science Dep.
Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Biography
Sean Siqueira is a Computer Science PhD student and a member
of the database research group at Catholic University of Rio
de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He has been researching database technology
for e-learning for the last years. He is a member of the international
project "PARTNERSHIP IN GLOBAL LEARNING" involving
PUC-Rio, UNICAMP, FGV from Brazil, University of Florida from
the USA and Instituto Tecnico Superior de Monterrey from Mexico,
as well as of the eLO-Compose project at ICIST from Portugal.
