Very active learning of network routing

  • Authors:

  • Lillian N. Cassel

  • Affiliations:

  • Villanova University, Villanova PA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Active learning promises students will really own what they have learned because they have done something rather than only read or listen. The following classroom exercise has been used at both the undergraduate and graduate level Computer Networks courses. There has been no formal study of its effectiveness, but an informal result is telling: Two routing algorithms presented in class. On an exam, students are asked to choose one of them and describe it. In several years of using this classroom exercise, nearly all the students chose the method we did with this exercise and they all explained the algorithm correctly.