Project and team based teaching of system programming in the course of operating systems

Higher education in Slovakia faces a number of problems. In this paper, we focus on one of them - an outdated way of practical teaching of computer science students, because of which the students do not understand enough the acquired knowledge and they often fail to apply this acquired theoretical knowledge in practice. This article represents the description of our experience with the experiment in which we have introduced modern teaching methods of project and team learning into the Operating Systems course taught at the Technical University in Kosice. After the experiment, the results of the students were collected and compared with the results of other students who did not participate in the experiment. These comparisons, along with the feedback from participating students, represent real data that enables the authors to evaluate the relevance of applied innovative teaching methods. We believe, that our solutions can serve as an inspiration for other people in academic circles encountering similar problems as we do.