Objectives: Faculty new to teaching operating systems or those looking to refresh their course need to understand the state of the art in operating system education. Toward this goal, we conducted a survey of operating system instructors to understand how ...

A traditional course in Operating Systems includes the topic of CPU scheduling with a discussion of several different scheduling policies. Historically, we have used a paper-based worksheet to help students understand how different scheduling policies ...

Analogies have long been proposed as a valuable teaching mechanism, but the question of whether student-generated analogies are more effective for learning compared to those generated by the instructor has not been answered. We compare three different ...