Authors : Galina O. Artemova, Artem D. Beresnev, Kseniya I. Buraya and Natalia F. Gusarova
Abstract: An important area of modern pedagogy is active learning and project-based learning as one of its styles. Modern computer-based projects are usually connected with the network infrastructure which today means the use of network and cloud services. The existing typical solutions for configuring and debugging are costly, their interface is too complicated for the participants of the pedagogical process who have insufficient IT skills, they do not allow to take into account the requirements of poorly defined information. To overcome identified difficulties and support project-based learning, we have developed the system of network infrastructure configuring for project learning that is devoid of these shortcomings. The system works directly in the real network environment which means that development, modeling, debugging and verification of a real network configuration are implemented simultaneously. The results of experiments we conducted to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of the developed system in comparison with a standard approach. We aimed to answer the following question: How does runtime of the task change for different groups of participants using the developed system and standard approach? We developed the error’s typology and researched it distribution depending on the qualification of participants. The research shows that the lower the skill level of the participant is the more pronounced the advantages of the developed system are. The maximum payoff for the task is 35% for the beginners, the minimum is 5% for the high level skills. Our researches show that user support in systems of network infrastructure configuring for project learning should have dynamic structure and depend on the initial qualification and the current behavior of the user. It completely conforms to the requirements of adaptivity and intellectuality of the environments for project learning.
Galina O. Artemova, Artem D. Beresnev, Kseniya I. Buraya and Natalia F. Gusarova, 2017. System of Network Infrastructure Configuring for Project Learning. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 8607-8613.