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Foil 95 Educational Glossary IV

From General NPAC Foils-B starting June97(PowerPoint) General Research -- June-December 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Database Backend: used to store educational objects -- curricula, grades, quizzes; personal data (students and teachers); assessment logs; multimedia records of classes
2 Web-linked database: A database used with a Web client front end. This can use various technologies:
  • Perl CGI Scripts such as oraperl for Oracle
  • Template based Web front-ends such as Cold Fusion
  • Specialized solutions such as Oracle Web Server and Lotus Notes
  • Good but out-dated solutions such as PL/SQL generating HTML from Oracle database
  • General JDBC Java or Javabean (componentware) modules
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