GENI in the Education

Schedule

Tuesday 10.30am - 12.30pm

Session Leaders

Vic Thomas GENI Project Office

Agenda / Details

Introductory comments - Vic (5 mins)

• GENI as a remote virtual lab
• instructor resources including training opportunities
• mailing list for GENI educators

Instructor resources (courseware) (3 speakers, 12 mins each):

• Fraida Fund: (12 mins)

Classroom as a service MOOCs (how they may be used in the classroom in addition to the community)

• Mike: GENI-based courseware (12 mins)

Perhaps arranged in a logical progression---IP Routing, learning switch controller, load balancer (across links, across servers), ... Benefits: authoring tools, auto-grading, integrated environment for running experiemnts, collecting measurements and generating reports

• Jay: GENI-based courseware (12 mins)

Benefits: Use as exercises or as supplementary material to lectures, complete package: instructions, instructor guide, videos

Instructor experiences: (4 speakers, 15 mins each)

• Prasad Calyam. Cloud computing classes, large classes
• Bruce Hartpence. Experiences with classes that are more IT networking oriented than traditional CS networking classes (is this a correct characterization?)
• Rudra Dutta. Using GENI in very large class
• Fraida Fund. DARPA Spectrum Challenge based class assignment

Discussion:

• Suggestions for course material
• New GENI functionality that will make life easier for instructors/students
• Others...including topics that come up at the session.

Pre-Requisites

None