Database (Lecture) Streams on the Cloud: An Experience Report on Teaching an Undergrad Database Lecture during a Pandemic

TL;DR

This paper reports on the experience of teaching an undergraduate database course online during the pandemic, highlighting effective tools and methods that received positive student feedback.

Contribution

It provides practical insights and a successful teaching model for delivering database lectures remotely during a pandemic.

Findings

Positive student feedback on the online teaching approach

Identification of effective tools and methods for remote database education

Plans to adopt the same model for future courses

Abstract

This is an experience report on teaching the undergrad lecture Big Data Engineering at Saarland University in summer term 2020 online. We describe our teaching philosophy, the tools used, what worked and what did not work. As we received extremely positive feedback from the students, in the future, we will continue to use the same teaching model for other lectures.