Curriculum Development for a Remotely Accessible Networking Laboratory

该项目扩大了现有的网络实验室，以允许广泛的远程访问和控制，并调整了一套实验室模块用于这方面。将对目前在线课程库中的材料以及最近的数据通信文本进行改编，以便于远程和异步访问。通过提供远程访问，该实验室可供学生异步工作或在远程位置。这有一个额外的好处，即实验室是一天二十四小时，一周七天，从而最大限度地利用。实验室是独立的和教程，使他们可以独立于课堂上的讲座使用。这使得设备可以在同一过程中以连续的方式重复使用，大大减少了对重复设备的需求。 这一做法应可为其他希望引进以实验室为基础的电信教学的机构提供一种模式。该项目解决了在数据通信中提供有意义的实践教学的挑战，其方式既具有成本效益，又符合异步和远程学习计划中学生的需求。

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.