Cloud-based virtual laboratory for network security education

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 145-150

  Xu, Le ^a   Huang, Dijiang ^a   Tsai, Wei Tek ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; network security; virtual laboratory

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORIES; NETWORK SECURITY; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING; CURRICULUM DESIGNS; EXPERIMENTAL ENVIRONMENT; LABORATORY SOLUTION; PROGRESSIVE LEARNING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL LABORATORIES; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES;

DISTANCE EDUCATION;

EID: 84905921566     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2013.2282285     Document Type: Article

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