The Network Workbench and Constructivism: Learning Protocols by Programming

摘要: The Network Workbench (NW) is a software environment for academic investigation of network protocol concepts. structure and operation NW has been described in detail elsewhere. This paper addresses the instructional design with intention establishing that it represents ‘natural constructivism’ strongly aligned constructivist approach. We begin synopsis educational philosophy. After this architecture facilities provides are described, as 12 associated programming projects. Based on these descriptions, its projects evaluated light principles philosophy shown to be very strong alignment them. conclude that, although development did not proceed from formal grounding constructivism, successful implementation natural approach teaching protocols computer networking.