Inexpensive, scalable and transparent open source classroom management for linuxbased laboratories

Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment, and Engineering Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 39-44

  Gaspar, Alessio ^a   Langevin, Sarah ^a   Armitage, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom management; Computer science; Information technology; Linux; Networking; Open source; Operating systems; System administration; Undergraduate laboratories

Indexed keywords

CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT; LINUX; NETWORKING; OPEN SOURCES; SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION; UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORY;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURRICULA; E-LEARNING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LABORATORIES; OPEN SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 84878259166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6262-9_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. SOFTICE project wiki, http://softice.lakeland.usf.edu/.
2. Gaspar A., Delobel F., Armitage W., Karshmer A. and Fleschute F., SOFTICE: Scalable, Open, Fully Transparent and Inexpensive Clustering for Education, EISTA Int. Conference, pp. 335-340, July, 2004.
3. Gaspar, A., Stanaback, J., Clark, C., Hackers' legacy as a new pedagogical approach to undergraduate operating systems laboratories, ITiCSE 2006.
4. Gaspar, A., Langevin, S., New Approaches for Linux-based Undergraduate Operating Systems Laboratories, submitted to SIGCSE 2007.
5. Nieh, J., Vaill, C., Experiences teaching OS using virtual platforms & Linux, SIGCSE conference, 2005.
6. Dike, J., A user-mode port of the Linux kernel, In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference, Atlanta, p.63, Atlanta, GA, 2000. Usenix.
7. Chapman, R., Carlisle, W.H., A Linux-based lab for operating systems and network courses, Linux Journal #41, 1997.
8. Heatly, G., Implementation & evaluation of a virtual computing environment created with User Mode Linux. Graduate school annual conference, University of Central Lancashire, UK, 12/2004.
9. C. Kreber, P.A. Cranton, Exploring the Scholarship of Teaching, Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 71, No. 4, 2000.
10. Rogers, M.P., Working Linux into the CS curriculum, Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 16:1, 2000.
11. J. Mayo and P. Keans, A Secured Networked Laboratory for Kernel Programming, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin volume 32 issue 1, 1998.
12. R. Chapman, W. Carlisle, A Linux-Based Lab for Operating Systems and Network Courses, Linux Journal #41, 1997.
13. th SIGCSE, 2006.
14. S.J. Andriole, Designing a Versatile Dedicated Computing Lab to support computer Network Courses: Insights from a case study, Journal of IT Education (JITE), Vol. 5, (2006).
15. Davoli, R., Teaching Operating Systems Administration with User Mode Linux, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, volume 36 issue 3, 2004.
16. Adams, J.C., Laverell, W.D., Configuring a multi-course lab for system-level projects, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, volume 37 issue 1, 2005.
17. Pardo, A., Kloos, C.D., Deploying interactive e-labs for a course on operating sytems, SIGITE 2005.
18. Claypool, M., Finkel, D., Wills, C., An open source laboratory for operating systems projects, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, volume 33 issue 3, 2001.
19. th SIGITE conference, 2004.
20. Stockman, M., Nyland, J., Weed, W., Centrally-Stored and Delivered Virtual Machines in the Networking/System Administration Lab, ACM SIGITE Newsletter, volume 2 issue 2, 2005.
21. Virtual Network Laboratory - Christchurch Polytechnic institute of technology (CPIT), New Zealand. http://usermodelinux.sourceforge.net/case- studies.html.
22. th Annual NACCQ, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2003.
23. Krap, A. Setting up a virtual network Laboratory with User- Mode Linux. Technical report, Masters programme on System and Network Administration, University of Amsterdam, 2004 URL: http://www.os3.nl/̃arjen/snb/asp/asp- report.pdf.
24. Netkit, http://www.netkit.org/.
25. My Linux Network (MLN), http://mln.sourceforge.net/.
26. Zebra routing software, http://www.zebra.org.
27. Xen virtual machine monitor software, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ xen/.