Using Virtual Machines to Improve Learning and Save  Resources in an Introductory IT Course

Stoker, Geoff; Arnold, Todd; Maxwell, Paul

Using Virtual Machines to Improve Learning and Save Resources in an Introductory IT Course

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Using Virtual Machines to Improve Learning and Save.pdf (693.88 KB)

Date

2013

Authors

Stoker, Geoff

Arnold, Todd

Maxwell, Paul

Publisher

ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education (SIGITE '13)

Abstract

Information technology courses often require the use of software and hardware to support classroom learning. These systems can assist in achieving the learning objectives for a course through classroom problems and laboratory exercises. The procurement and maintenance of these systems can be a challenge even for well resourced organizations. In this paper we discuss how virtual machines can relieve organizations of some of their resource burdens while effectively achieving course learning objectives and provide examples of how that is currently done at the United States Military Academy.

Keywords

Information technology, virtual machines

Citation

Geoff Stoker, Todd Arnold, and Paul Maxwell. 2013. Using virtual machines to improve learning and save resources in an introductory IT course. In Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education (SIGITE '13). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 91–96. https://doi.org/10.1145/2512276.2512287