Abstract: This teaching tip addresses the faculty preparation, course design, and resource allocation undertaken to teach an undergraduate course in telecommunications and data networking to business students with a concentration in Information Systems. There are special difficulties in designing such a course because of the hardware preparation involved and the assignment of supervisor rights to a large number of students. The course lectures are integrated with problem-solving oriented laboratory based assignments. The author believes that hands-on experience with networking hardware and software for the students is essential to grasp the data networking concepts.

Keywords: Data networking, Information systems education, Telecommunications

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Recommended Citation: Pandya, P. (2004). Teaching Tip: Telecommunications and Data Networking Course: Balancing Theory and Practice. Journal of Information Systems Education, 15(2), 113-117.