Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

In the Spring 2026 semester at Old Dominion University (ODU), I taught CS 450 (Undergrad) / CS 550 (Graduate): Database Concepts . The course was fully online, with synchronous live Zoom sessions held twice a week. The attendance was not mandatory but strongly encouraged. All lectures were recorded and made available for students to access whenever needed. Figure 1: Canvas course page for CS 450/550: Database Concepts Through this blog post, I want to share my experience of teaching a senior-level undergraduate/graduate course for the first time, the behind-the-scenes realities of course preparation through to the end of the course, and how student feedback actively shaped the course as it progressed.  Since the course had been taught previously by other instructors, materials were already available, which made things easier. Rather than building everything from scratch, I started by copying over the existing course structure and then carefully updating it to align with the current...

https://xkcd.com/329/ Eight courses from the Web Science and Digital Libraries ( WS-DL ) Group will be offered for Spring 2026.  The classes will be a mixture of on-line synchronous, asynchronous, and f2f.  C S 418/518 Web Programming, Ms.  Nasreen Muhammad Arif , Mondays & Wednesdays 3:00-4:15  Topics : MySQL, React, Express.js, NodeJS, MVC (Model-View-Control), Search Engines, GitHub   C S 431/531  Web Server Design , Mr.  David Calano , Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 10:00-10:50   Topics : HTTP, REST (Representational State Transfer), HATEOAS    C S 432/532 Web Science,  Ms.  Nasreen Muhammad Arif , asynchronous   Topics : Python, R, D3, ML, and IR.   CS 620 Intro to Data Science & Analytics, Dr.  Bhanuka Mahanama , Web, Tuesdays & Thursdays 6:00-7:15 and asynchronous (8 week session starting in October) Topics : Python, Pandas, NumPy, NoSQL, Data Wrangling, ML, Colab. CS 625 Da...