Teaching Networking Fundamentals with Sound

Author

Moore, John P. T. ; Bagale, Jiva N. ; Kheirkhahzadeh, Antonio D.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. & Technol., Univ. of West London, London, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

15-18 July 2013

Firstpage

369

Lastpage

370

Abstract

There have been significant levels of research into how to use technology to teach programming principles. However, there has been less research to show how technology can be used to help teach network fundamentals in a creative way. Instead, simulation has been widely adopted as the main software tool when teaching networking concepts. In this paper we examine a more applied approach to help students gain some knowledge of fundamental concepts in networking such as bandwidth, throughput and latency. We achieved this by designing a tool to support the transmission of data over sound and examined its use on a group (n=20) of networking students.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer networks; computer science education; data communication; software tools; teaching; data transmission over sound; networking concept teaching; networking fundamental teaching; networking students; programming principle teaching technology; software tool; Bandwidth; Computers; Educational institutions; Knowledge engineering; Throughput; XML; data communication; network fundamentals; technology enhanced learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2013.113

Filename

6601955