Teaching Networking and Ethernet Infrastructure: An Experiential Excercise
Mary McCord, Henry Croes
Students in Information Systems/Technology overview courses often needhelp linking or translating technical abstract concepts into physical concrete elements. Experiential/earning, which has been found to increase students' ability to transfer knowledge and skills from the classroom to the real world, is presented as a method to help students conceptualize abstract concepts in networking and Ethernet infrastructure: This paper presents an experiential exercise that simulates network topologies and Ethernet infrastructure.
Mary McCord is an assistant professor of CIS in the Harmon College of Business at Central Missouri State University. She received her Ph.D. in management at the University of Oklahoma. Herresearch focuses on consumer behaviorin ecommerceand individualadoption ofInformation Systems and Technology.
Henry Croes is a Ph.D. candidate in the MIS Division of the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma. Henry's research areas include IS capabilities and interfunction metrics. Prior to his graduate studies he designed communications and computer networks for the United States Army.
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