Networking Information Technologies and Services

Pilot group of students of the firth year started education from September 1995 till March 1997.
The pilot educational program includes the main specialized courses on Networking Information Technologies and Information Resource Management that can be developed on existing information and technical base with minimum additional funding:

Basic Units

• Information and Advanced Communication Technologies, society and organization.<>
• Computer Networks Basics. LAN and WAN Technologies.
• Internetworking and Network Management.
• Networking Information Technologies and Services
• Information Resource Management.
• Open Client/Server Computing Technologies.

Optional Units

• Information Systems Applications.
• Internet information resources and navigation tools.

The pilot development of mentioned courses is intended to span the main issues of teaching Networking Information technologies. Another purpose of such pilot work is to adopt and test Russian terminology on real lecturing.

Some practical experience will be acquired by students during practical projects designing in autumn and spring semesters that include development of real networks projects for concrete academic and educational institutions including development of necessary information services for operational needs of given organizations and/or user's group. Also practical installation of services and pilot information resource development is performed on special educational laboratory base.

The project is developed by group of three or four students and include all necessary components of real networking project development of campus or company's network including

• Real conditions investigation
• Network structure design
• Choice of Hardware, Software and Communications and Internet Services Providers for project realisation on comparative basis among companies and providers available in Ukraine
• Defining user's groups in organisation and their information resource needs
• Information server development and pilot services installation
• Creation of devoted to the project WWW server information structure and its pilot implementation.

The methodological and instructional materials for such project work are based on materials of real networking projects of KPI Campus Network, ISF Telecommunication Project for Creating Pilot IP Network in Kiev [5] and other projects materials.