1. Gaining Educational Users for GENI
Justin Cappos NYU Poly
Computer Science and Engineering

2. Educational use with Seattle
Classroom experience
Released in Spring 2009
Used in more than two dozen classes (so far)
3 tutorials, 3 library references, etc.
10 battle tested assignments
Overlay routing, flow control, NAT / Non-transitive connectivity, Chord (DHT), web / chat servers, reference monitors, NAT tunneling, etc.
OS classes are coming
Advanced projects
MapReduce, Distributed Web Servers, etc.
Community support
Supported by educational groups
SIGCSE paper, 3 CCSC workshops, etc.
Top ranked SIGCOMM Educational Resource
Coming in Computer Networking by Kurose & Ross
Most popular networking book!

3. Four pieces of advice Address educational needs
Minimize adoption hurdles
Don't overestimate your audience
Promote your work widely

4. Address educational needs
Focus on learning objectives
Enhancing student understanding of flow control
Not: Enhancing student understanding of the GENI control framework
Why would this be useful?

5. Minimize Adoption Hurdles
Minimize initial setup costs
Should be able to easily demo in 5 mins
Make reusable modules
Minimize management overhead
Instructors must have very low per-student and per-class overhead
No “ask first”
Minimize student pain
Students should spend time learning concepts, not GENI tools!

6. Don't Overestimate Your Audience
Students have different levels of competency
Think about error messages!
Code after you know how it should look
Should have extensive tutorials
Wiki is worth the effort
Instructors are very busy
Many teach 3 classes per semester and networks only every other year
Make it 'Chauffeur' simple

7. Promote Your Work Widely
Give talks at a variety of venues
4-year / 2-year instructors may only go to 1-2 events a year
Only a few will come to GECs
Regional conferences exist
Promote individually
Easy 5 min demo is key
You could walk them through it!

8. Seattle based Educational experiences
Summary
Seattle based Educational experiences
Address educational needs
Minimize adoption hurdles
Don't overestimate your audience
Promote your work widely
Seattle: Battle tested educational platform!
Free, simple and safe to use
Open participation / open source
Broad community
Easy to drop into a class