Collaborative Project: Integrating Learning Resources for Information Security Research and Education (iSECURE)

本项目是基于安全本体的信息安全课程多媒体教材（幻灯片、视频、教材）的链接与整合。多媒体课程材料的语义链接使学生能够根据内容、媒介和学习方式搜索和编写多媒体和交互式课程材料，实现灵活的个性化学习。为实现这些目标，本项目重点开展以下研究任务：(1)根据学习媒体的学习内容对其进行分割和注释；(2)构建用于学习对象注释和查询的安全本体；(3)根据学生的学习风格调整讲座内容；(4)评估链接多媒体安全学习系统的可用性和有效性。本项目开发的技术和方法，包括给定学习主题的本体构建器、多媒体学习对象的语义分割、学习对象的搜索和个性化，可以适用于任何课程。该项目的结果是通过创建所有课程内容的特定主题搜索，帮助学生在引入不熟悉的材料时建立在现有知识的基础上。这改变了学生的学习方式，使课程内容更有组织、更互动、更易于访问，同时增加了个性化选项。通过将搜索结果整合到当前的学习中，学生可以立即填补之前学习中的空白。通过即时访问学习，体验真正的互动，个性化的学习环境，学生不太可能被课程材料压垮。

This project is linking and integrating multi-media teaching materials (slides, videos and textbooks) used in Information Security courses based on a security ontology. The semantic linking of the multimedia course materials allows students to search and compose multimedia and interactive course materials based on the content, medium and learning styles, enabling flexible personalized learning. To achieve these goals, the project is focusing on several research tasks: (1) Segmenting and annotating learning media based on their learning content, (2) Building a Security ontology to be used for annotating and querying of the learning objects, (3) Adapting lecture content to student learning styles, and (4) Evaluating the usability and effectiveness of the linked multimedia security learning system.The technology and methodology that is being developed by this project, including the ontology builder for a given learning topic, the semantic segmentation of multimedia learning objects, the search, and personalization of learning objects, can be adapted to any course. The outcome of this project helps students build upon existing knowledge as they are being introduced to unfamiliar material, by creating subject specific searches of all course content. This changes the way students learn by making course content more organized, interactive, and instantly accessible while adding individualization options. Students are able to fill gaps in their previous learning instantly by integrating search results into their current studying. By having instant access to learning, and experiencing a truly interactive, individualized learning environment, students are less likely to be overwhelmed by course materials.