Designing a Database

Designing the databases is a challenge and an appropriate challenge for anyone designing learning because it forces the instructional designer to organize information so that it’s as granular as possible. There are several considerations: what is the information on hand, who will access the information, and how will the information evolve. By designing the database for the users, you need to figure out what information FIRST would find relevant but also it forces you to think about the users as active agents: if you were using this program, what information would you want access to and how would you want information entered treated?