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Welcome to my Research Blog. Here I will keep you informed about my progress in researching new teaching methods for Operating Systems classes.

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Methods: Creating a Moodle course for Linux newbies (21.04.2009)


Since I cannot experiment too much with Moodle in my Operating Systems course, I am currently creating a Moodle course with text, audio and video elements for Linux newbies. It is planned as a step-by-step introduction to Linux, covering live systems, disk installation, and first steps with the desktop and some standard apps.

The course will be available online for free, but it's only in German. Here's the link: linux-einsteigerkurs.de (So far, there's only a framework; I've created mostly empty course topics in a Moodle course.)

The Moodle website has some information about certification (MCCC: Moodle Certified Course Creator), and I've considered learning all the bits necessary for this certification. (Full access to the cert information requires registration on moodle.org.)

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Methods: 4C/ID: Combining Memory Management and Filesystems (21.04.2009)


As a first measure of implementing the 4C/ID method I am developping a new partial curriculum for the two topics Memory Management and Filesystems. Since there are many similarities in the concepts, I want to teach them in parallel. One of 4C/ID's suggestions is to change between different tasks while increasing complexity of the shown examples/concepts.

I start with writing a lecture notes chapter for the two topics; the latest version is available here.

At the end of this term's lectures I plan to hand out a questionnaire that will ask the students what they think about this combination of the two topics. I will also evaluate the final test's results and compare them with last year's results (only for questions concerning MM and Filesystems) when the course was taught in a classic way (MM and Filesystems as separate topics).

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Methods: Evaluating the 4C/ID Model (12.11.2008)


I'm currently scanning literature which covers the 4C/ID (Four Components Instructional Design) model, in particular I am reading "Ten Steps to Complex Learning", by the inventor of the 4C/ID model, Prof. Jeroen J. G. van Merrienboer, see Amazon book entry.

4C/ID focuses on the definition of

  • "learning tasks", which shall be modelled as "whole" tasks that have real-world relevance,
  • "supportive information" (which is fundamental, background information needed throughout the whole learning process and thus provided before the task starts),
  • "just-in-time information" which is presented during e.g. the step-by-step explanation of a procedure that shall be learnt, and
  • "part-task practice" which helps students automatize sub-tasks that should in general not be treated as separate tasks.
For a short introduction, see http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/4C/ID.

I want to use this model to structure the elements of an Operating Systems curriculum and see what consequences this application will have for the order of presentation.

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Methods: Literate Programming -- Implementing a Round Robin Scheduler (24.08.2008)


Following a suggestion of my doctoral advisor Prof. Freiling, I have read some literature about Literate Programming (see e.g. http://www.literateprogramming.com/) and experimented with the source code of a Round Robin Scheduler that I wrote for my Operating Systems class in the summer term 2008. Here is the full documentation that I developed with noweb (http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/noweb/): sched-rr10.pdf

The noweb source file can be found here (sched-rr10.nw) as well as the bibtex references file lit.bib.

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