Crossing Disciplines for Educational Concepts: The Value of REA as a Top-Down Approach to Introduce Entity-Relationship Diagramming in IS Curricula

Proceedings - Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 844-849

  Trimmer, Ken ^a   LeRouge, Cindy ^b   Pinsker, Rob ^c  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL MODELS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; UNIFORM MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

CURRICULA; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STUDENTS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

TEACHING;

EID: 1642458333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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