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Recommended Citation: Krishnamoorthy, S.  An Experience Designing and Teaching a Hands-on Project-based Networking Technologies Course for IS and IT.  In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2006, v 23 (Dallas): §3112. ISSN: 1542-7382. (A later version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 5(22). ISSN: 1545-679X.)
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An Experience Designing and Teaching a Hands-on Project-based Networking Technologies Course for IS and IT

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Refereed6 pages
Suban Krishnamoorthy    [a1] [a2]
Computer Science Department
Framingham State College    [u1] [u2]
Framingham, Massachusetts, USA    [c1] [c2]

Networks have evolved and have become an integral part of computing environments today. Knowledge and experience in networking have been advocated as essential components of Information Systems and Information Technology programs by ACM-IEEE computing curricula working groups. The Information Systems and Information Technology students are more organization-centric and prefer little or no programming. A hands-on project-based networking course that was designed and offered to cater to the needs of these programs and the responses of students is described in this paper. In addition to course content, various issues, such as varying student backgrounds, enrollments, lab equipment for hands-on experience, lab maintenance, lab space, and lab access are also described.

Keywords: information systems, information technology, networking technologies, course design, hands-on project

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