TY - GEN
T1 - Global Connections for Lasting Impressions: Experiential Learning about TCP
AU - Allison, Colin
AU - Miller, Alan Henry David
AU - Oliver, Iain
AU - Sturgeon, Thomas
PY - 2009/8/20
Y1 - 2009/8/20
N2 - "Tell me and I forget, Show me and I remember, Involve me and I understand." This paper discusses the motivation for, and design of, a learning resource which allows students to explore the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP is responsible for transporting over 80% of the traffic on the Internet ? all web and e-mail for example ? and in addition is the primary means of achieving Internet congestion control. TCP is therefore core to modern life. It is a protocol under constant study with a view to evolution, and it is incumbent on all ICT curricula to provide education at appropriate levels about its dynamics, strengths and weaknesses. There are no shortages of good textbooks which provide information on TCP, but these are no substitute for experiential learning in order to provide a lasting understanding. The TCP Live learning resource allows students to explore the behavior of TCP on the global Internet, and see the wide variety of conditions that the protocol has to cope with, thereby extending their viewpoint outwith the limited scope of their own institutional firewalls.
AB - "Tell me and I forget, Show me and I remember, Involve me and I understand." This paper discusses the motivation for, and design of, a learning resource which allows students to explore the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP is responsible for transporting over 80% of the traffic on the Internet ? all web and e-mail for example ? and in addition is the primary means of achieving Internet congestion control. TCP is therefore core to modern life. It is a protocol under constant study with a view to evolution, and it is incumbent on all ICT curricula to provide education at appropriate levels about its dynamics, strengths and weaknesses. There are no shortages of good textbooks which provide information on TCP, but these are no substitute for experiential learning in order to provide a lasting understanding. The TCP Live learning resource allows students to explore the behavior of TCP on the global Internet, and see the wide variety of conditions that the protocol has to cope with, thereby extending their viewpoint outwith the limited scope of their own institutional firewalls.
KW - Exploratory Learning
KW - PlanetLab
KW - TCP
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03426-8_6
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-03426-8_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-03426-8_6
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 978-3-642-03425-1
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 48
EP - 57
BT - Advances in Web Based Learning. ICWL 2009
A2 - Spaniol, Mark
A2 - Li, Qing
A2 - Klamma, Ralf
A2 - Lau, Rynson W. H.
PB - Springer
T2 - 8th International Conference on Web Based Learning (ICWL 2009)
Y2 - 19 August 2009 through 21 August 2009
ER -