Virtual lab: A concrete experience in building multi-purpose virtualized labs for Computer Science Education

Author

Castiglione, Aniello ; Cattaneo, Giuseppe ; Catuogno, Luigi ; Cerrelli, Ezio ; Giampaolo, Carlo Di ; Marino, Fulvio ; Rotondo, R.

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Inf., Univ. degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

11-13 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The employment of virtualized infrastructures has increased significantly the resources and tools available to teachers to support the courses with practical exercises carried out with the aid of computers. In this paper, the design and the implementation of a virtual multiple lab is discussed along with the experiences and the issues raised by its deployment as a tool for teaching undergraduate courses in Computer Science. Particular emphasis is posed on infrastructure operation and maintenance highlighting its benefits, discussing its limitation and potential improvements.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; laboratories; teaching; building multipurpose virtualized lab; computer science education; practical exercise; teachers; undergraduate course teaching; virtual multiple lab; virtualized infrastructure; Laboratories; Operating systems; Servers; Virtual machining; Workstations; Computer Science Education; Hands-on; Networking; Operating systems; Virtualization; e-learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM), 2012 20th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Split

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2710-7

Type

conf

Filename

6347613