An Exercise Assistant for Practical Networking Courses

Jens Haag, Christian Witte, Stefan Karsch, Harald Vranken, Marko van Eekelen

2014

Abstract

Supporting students with feedback and guidance while they work on networking exercises can be provided in on-campus universities by human course advisors. A shortcoming however is that these advisors are not continuously available for the students, especially when students are working on exercises independently from the university, e.g. at home using a virtual environment. In order to improve this learning situation we present our concept of an exercise assistant, which is able to provide feedback and guidance to the student while they are working on exercises. This exercise assistant is also able to verify solutions based on expert knowledge modelled using description logic.

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Haag J., Witte C., Karsch S., Vranken H. and van Eekelen M. (2014). An Exercise Assistant for Practical Networking Courses . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-020-8, pages 97-104. DOI: 10.5220/0004843700970104


in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu14,
author={Jens Haag and Christian Witte and Stefan Karsch and Harald Vranken and Marko van Eekelen},
title={An Exercise Assistant for Practical Networking Courses},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2014},
pages={97-104},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004843700970104},
isbn={978-989-758-020-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - An Exercise Assistant for Practical Networking Courses
SN - 978-989-758-020-8
AU - Haag J.
AU - Witte C.
AU - Karsch S.
AU - Vranken H.
AU - van Eekelen M.
PY - 2014
SP - 97
EP - 104
DO - 10.5220/0004843700970104