VTECH Technology Experience

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VTECH Technology Experience
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What is VTECH WAES?

• Experience-based learning tool
• Useful when students should be monitored and
  isolated from production environments
• Supplement to network engineering courses
• Useful for device experience to apply the
  concepts and principles taught in lecture
• VTECH is this project. The Web Access Exercise
  System WAES is the software used to run the lab.

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What VTECH offers

• Integrated set of problems, packaged as
• Units Complete case study
• Modules High level concepts within the Unit
• Scenarios Focused case studies addressing
  specific skills
• Exercises Hands-on experiences

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What VTECH offers cont

• Each exercise builds stand-alone skills
• Students can weave the exercise skills together
• Upon completing every exercise in the unit, the
  student will have the skills necessary to solve
  the overall case study

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Integration into a Course

• Planning
• Delivery
• Assessment

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Planning

• Using the entire Unit
• Choosing specific scenarios or individual
  exercises
• Individual coverage vs completeness

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Delivery

• Preparation
• Suggested text but adaptable to others
• Schedule
• Window of time
• Concurrent access
• External Interactions

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Assessment

• WAES provides convenient web accessible
  assessment using the following tools
• Session Logs
• Submitted Materials
• Go/No-Go Feedback

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Course Management

• Account creation
• Server access issues
• Lab technical support

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Future Exercise Features

• Collaboration
• Mentoring
• Peer Support
• Team Work
• Asynchronous Discussion
• Blogs / Wiki
• Email

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Future Lab Features

• Federation
• Coordination among geographically and
  administratively distributed resources
• Virtualization and Scaling