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Deploying interactive e-labs for a course on operating systems

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Abelardo Pardo,

Carlos Delgado KloosAuthors Info & Claims

SIGITE '05: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Information technology education

Pages 71 - 78

https://doi.org/10.1145/1095714.1095732

Published: 20 October 2005 Publication History

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Automatic assessment of laboratory assignments is a powerful technique to improve how students understand the body of knowledge of conventional information technology courses. Also, teaching techniques such as competitive programming, games and puzzles motivate students and increase their probability of becoming successful learners. In this paper a set of assignments that combine automatic assessment and competitive programming is presented in the context of a course on operating systems. Aside from the theory sessions, students are required to write C programs. A set of assessments is given, each of them with a clearly stated performance criteria. Upon arrival, all submissions are automatically processed and ranked depending on their performance. A web page is regularly updated with the ranked submissions plus additional remarks on how to improve them. Empirical results show that students make several submissions for each assignment to first achieve a correct solution and then gradually obtain performance improvements.

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Index Terms

Deploying interactive e-labs for a course on operating systems
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems

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DOI:10.1145/1095714

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Wu BWang A(2012)A guideline for game development-based learningInternational Journal of Computer Games Technology10.1155/2012/1037102012(8-8)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1155/2012/103710
Gaspar ALangevin SArmitage WRideout M(2008)March of the (virtual) machinesJournal of Computing Sciences in Colleges10.5555/1352627.135264823:5(123-132)Online publication date: 1-May-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1352627.1352648
Gaspar ALangevin SArmitage W(2007)Inexpensive, Scalable and Transparent Open Source Classroom Management for Linux-based LaboratoriesInnovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment, and Engineering Education10.1007/978-1-4020-6262-9_7(39-44)Online publication date: 2007
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6262-9_7

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