An Embedded Asterisk Platform Instructional Design to Teach Voice over IP in Information Technology Undergraduate Courses - Using Raspberry PI and Asterisk to Build an Embedded Portable Didactic Tool

M. C. Dias, L. C. Bezerra, D. Morais, Caio F. Gabi, A. Perkusich

2015

Abstract

This paper shows the building of an embedded Asterisk platform as a key technique for providing Information Technology classes with an extra laboratorial environment for learning Voice over Internet Protocol. Besides building the platform, the students are asked to mount a functional telephony system with it that meets the criteria of low cost, low building complexity and high adaptability to convergent networks. The Raspberry PI version B was the board used to provide portability for the students to work outside the laboratory environment. Asterisk was presented as a useful tool on which the students could create a flexible system that could be easily deployed on convergent networks. This work was developed in the Telephony subject for the Electrical Engineering and the Telecommunications Systems undergraduate courses from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Paraíba – IFPB, and presented good results in the students´ learning achievements.

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Dias M., Bezerra L., Morais D., F. Gabi C. and Perkusich A. (2015). An Embedded Asterisk Platform Instructional Design to Teach Voice over IP in Information Technology Undergraduate Courses - Using Raspberry PI and Asterisk to Build an Embedded Portable Didactic Tool . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-107-6, pages 461-466. DOI: 10.5220/0005489504610466


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@conference{csedu15,
author={M. C. Dias and L. C. Bezerra and D. Morais and Caio F. Gabi and A. Perkusich},
title={An Embedded Asterisk Platform Instructional Design to Teach Voice over IP in Information Technology Undergraduate Courses - Using Raspberry PI and Asterisk to Build an Embedded Portable Didactic Tool},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2015},
pages={461-466},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005489504610466},
isbn={978-989-758-107-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - An Embedded Asterisk Platform Instructional Design to Teach Voice over IP in Information Technology Undergraduate Courses - Using Raspberry PI and Asterisk to Build an Embedded Portable Didactic Tool
SN - 978-989-758-107-6
AU - Dias M.
AU - Bezerra L.
AU - Morais D.
AU - F. Gabi C.
AU - Perkusich A.
PY - 2015
SP - 461
EP - 466
DO - 10.5220/0005489504610466