Abstract:
As modern operating systems are becoming more complex in aspects of design
and architecture, to e ciently manage the modern sophisticated hardware
there is a growing need to groom computer science students to be well trained
in design and development of such systems. The applied and practical nature
of this course makes it challenging for students to explore the complexity in
limited amount of time. This thesis proposes a modi ed form of PBL by
combining it with lectures delivered by the instructors. This technique is
called hybrid project based learning (HPBL) in which before attempting a
real life problem, the instructor gives students a short lecture by explaining
the background and also covering su cient details which helps them understand
and analyze problems. This technique has been applied while teaching
Advanced Operating Systems course of MS computer science discipline at
National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad. Five lab tasks
are designed on ve di erent topics from Operating systems which covers
hardware and underlying software level details. The details of design, implementation
and evaluation of each lab task is discussed in this thesis. This
technique is later compared with traditional style of teaching and the feedback
is analyzed. The results showed that 80% of the respondents are more
comfortable with HPBL than traditional teaching.
