Students taking Stanford’s Advanced Topics in Networking class have to select a networking research paper and reproduce a result from it as part of a 3-week pair project. At the end of the process, they publish their findings on the course’s public Reproducing Network Research blog. It’s well worth having a look around the blog: the students manage to achieve a lot in only 3 weeks! In the last 5 years, 200 students have reproduced results from 40 papers.

In ‘Learning networking by reproducing research results’ the authors explain how this reproduction project came to be part of the course, what happens when students try to reproduce research, and the many benefits the students get from the experience. It’s a wonderful and inspiring idea that I’m sure could be applied more broadly too.

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