Curriculum Development for a Remotely Accessible Networking Laboratory

该项目扩展了现有的网络实验室，允许广泛的远程访问和控制，并调整了一套实验室模块，以供在这种情况下使用。目前联机课程储存库中的材料以及最近的数据通信文本将进行调整，以便远程和异步访问。通过提供远程访问，实验室对异步工作或在远程位置工作的学生可用。这还有一个额外的好处，即实验室每周7天，每天24小时都可以使用，从而最大限度地利用。作业是独立的和辅导式的，因此它们可以独立于课堂上的讲课而使用。这使得设备可以在同一过程中以顺序的方式重复使用，大大减少了对重复设备的需求。这种方法应该为其他希望引入以实验室为基础的电信教学的机构提供一个模型。该项目解决了在数据通信方面提供有意义的实践指导的挑战，这种方式既具有成本效益，又符合异步和远程学习项目中学生的需求。

This project expands an existing networking laboratory to allow extensive remote access and control and adapts a set of laboratory modules for use in this context. Materials from current on-line curriculum repositories as well as recent data communications texts will be adapted for remote and asynchronous accessibility. By providing remote access, the laboratory becomes available to students working asynchronously or at remote locations. This has the added benefit that the laboratory is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week thereby maximizing utilization.Assignments are stand-alone and tutorial so that they can be used independently of the lectures in a class. This allows equipment to be reused repeatedly in a sequential manner in the same course greatly reducing the need for duplicate equipment. This approach should provide a model for other institutions wishing to introduce telecommunications instruction with a laboratory-based component. This project addresses the challenge of providing meaningful, hands-on instruction in data communications in a manner that is both cost efficient and compatible with the needs of students in asynchronous and distance learning programs.