A consortium of secure remote access Labs for information technology education

Abstract

The information technology (IT) field is perhaps one of the most dynamic professions in modern history.Rapid advances in technology, along with dynamic nature of IT content have placed colleges and universities in a major predicament relative to procuring needed equipment and maintaining currency. On one hand, there is an increased need for trained IT professionals with current skills; on the other hand there is a major threat as academic institution are unable to meet the market demands due to limitation of available resources. Our solution to this challenge was to create an avenue for institutions to share resources in very innovative and mutually beneficial ways. In the wake of budget cuts and shrinking resources, our solution will ultimately allow schools to capitalize on the technologies available at each institution by pooling them into a large network of heterogeneous facilities that can be accessed over the Internet. A key feature of this process is the fact that everything is handled automatically by our locally developed in-house solution, thus freeing instructors of the burden of trying to locate needed resources for their students

Designing a flexible, multipurpose remote lab for the IT curriculum

“…This can be done by the individual institution at a single site or at multiple sites in using a consortium approach (Toderick, Mohammed, and Tabrizi, 2005;Yang, Yue, Liaw, Collins, Venkatraman, Achar, Sadasivam, and Chen, 2004). This approach has the potential of being lower cost, especially when that cost is shared among institutions or sites.…”

Teaching Reform of Information Security Curriculum of Distance Learning

“…This courseware was designed as a "hands-on" network laboratory including 17 hands-on learning modules. L. Toderick et al [8] described their secure remote access labs construction for the information technology teaching. Their proposal provided the automatic process of resource location and it could help the teachers save more time to instruct the students.…”

Serviços Web Semânticos: da modelagem à composição

“…No domínio educacional, uma diversificada gama de experimentos remotos têm sido propostos para complementar as experiências presenciais bem como para aprimorar a educação (e.g. [Toderick et al, 2005], [Zin and Harun, 2007], [Karadimas and Efstathiou, 2007], [Paladini et al, 2008]).…”

“…Importantes pesquisas em experimentação remota têm dedicado esforços para resolver problemas técnicos no tocante a oferecer acesso remoto aos experimentos (e.g. [Toderick et al, 2005], [Zin and Harun, 2007], [Karadimas and Efstathiou, 2007], [Paladini et al, 2008], dentre outros).…”