2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Case for Case Study assignments in Undergraduate Operating Systems Courses
Authors : Alessio Gaspar, Sarah Langevin
Published in: Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment, and Engineering Education
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
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Undergraduate operating systems courses can benefit form a plethora of pedagogical activities and approaches; system-level programming, kernel programming, algorithms simulations, etc. This paper explores the benefits of assigning students a semester-long case study in such a course and discusses the lessons learned from doing so for the past 4 years. We then propose to revisit the core objectives of such an activity and suggest a generic structure which can easily be adapted to fit institutions, courses and instructors requirements. The proposed case study assignment offers a scaffolding-based guidance to students and combines a high technical level with a good diversity of topics while addressing the issues which are typical in such assignment.