Work in progress: How student use lecture notes in an Operating Systems course

Abstract

In our Operating Systems course we make available in advance the lecture slides and lab sessions material. The slides are built paying attention to present the key ideas and with embedded links to sites in the Web where the topic is covered in greater detail. We also provide the corresponding excerpts of selected textbooks. Following the download activity and paying attention on what our students are doing during the lectures, we are able to collect some data on notes usage. By carefully selecting some questions in the test we can distinguish which student used the material available in links and excerpts. In this paper we present some patterns of use of the lecture notes.