Teaching Flooding Attack to the SDN Data Plane with POGIL

Abstract

Process oriented guided inquiry learning (POGIL) is a teaching technique that engages students in active learning and develops student process skills including critical thinking, problem solving, and teamwork. POGIL uses activities that are designed to guide students through questions to formulate patterns and relationships toward concept exploration. This paper describes the POGIL activities we developed for teaching Flooding Attack to the Software Defined Network (SDN) Data Plane, and our experience teaching this topic using POGIL These POGIL activities can be used by other educators in network security courses.