Developing a Data Communications Lab for Less Than $600: A Documented Experience

One of the most challenging tasks confronting faculty that teach in CIS/MIS programs is providing students the opportunity to not only study various information technology concepts and principles but to experience them through "hands-on" projects. The data communications course likely pres...

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Published in:The Journal of computer information systems 2001-06, Vol.41 (4), p.16-20
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