FORGE Enabling FIRE Facilities for the eLearning Community

Olivier Fourmaux (1) , Mohammed Yasin Rahman (1) , Christos Tranoris (2) , Daan Pareit (3) , Jono Vanhie-Van Gerwen (3) , Guillaume Jourjon (4) , Diarmuid Collins (5) , Johann M. Marquez-Barja (5)

1 NPA - Networks and Performance Analysis
2 ECE - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering [Patras]
3 UGENT - Universiteit Gent = Ghent University
4 NICTA - National ICT Australia [Sydney]
5 CONNECT, Trinity College Dublin

Many engineering students at third-level institutions across the world will not have the advantage of using real-world experimentation equipment, as the infrastructure and resources required for this activity are too expensive. This paper explains how the FORGE (Forging Online Education through FIRE) FP7 project transforms Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) testbed facilities into educational resources for the eLearning community. This is achieved by providing a framework for remote experimentation that supports easy access and control to testbed infrastructure for students and educators. Moreover, we identify a list of recommendations to support development of eLearning courses that access these facilities and highlight some of the challenges encountered by FORGE.

Mots clés: ELearning Platform; network testbeds

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain

Olivier Fourmaux, Mohammed Yasin Rahman, Christos Tranoris, Daan Pareit, Jono Vanhie-Van Gerwen, et al.. FORGE Enabling FIRE Facilities for the eLearning Community. 19th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, Sep 2016, Belfast, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-01366688⟩