EDU: Flipping the Online Security Classroom - Improving Retention of Security Student Pipeline through Early Intervention

该项目将“翻转课堂”的概念应用于使用混合学习和在线环境的网络安全教育。参与该计划的学生在教师的监督下通过各种方式协作进行虚拟实验室练习，包括个人视频聊天，小组视频聊天（例如Google Hangout）和模拟虚拟环境（例如Second Life）。 该项目还使用云技术创建一个可远程访问的网络安全和取证实验室环境，为多个社区学院和纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校的学生提供工具。该项目还采用了一个培训教员的方案，使教员能够分享专门知识，共同开发实验室练习。 这些活动正在摊销课程开发成本，使多个机构能够维持和支持成功的网络安全和数字取证计划。应对网络攻击带来的经济和国家安全威胁的人才短缺，随着潜在学生从信息技术领域转移，这种情况预计将进一步恶化。该项目正在改善缺乏资源获得最先进工具的机构的可及性;同时，它正在丰富社区学院的网络安全和法医学教育，同时为四年制学院创造更好的渠道。为此目的成功开发云计算实验室，为其他学科和机构提供了最佳做法和经验教训。

This project is applying the concept of a 'flipped classroom' to cyber security education using blended learning and online environments. Students participating in this program work on virtual laboratory exercises collaboratively under instructor supervision through various modalities, including individual video chats, group video chats (e.g. Google Hangout), and simulated virtual environments (e.g. Second Life). The project is also using cloud technology to create a remotely accessible cyber security and forensics laboratory environment that provides tools for students across multiple community colleges and the University at Albany, SUNY. The project is also employing a train-the-trainer program that allows instructors to share expertise and jointly develop laboratory exercises. These activities are amortizing curriculum development costs allowing multiple institutions to sustain and support a successful cyber security and digital forensics program. There is a shortage of talent to meet the economic and national security threats posed by cyber attacks, which is expected to worsen as potential students migrate away from information technology fields. This project is improving accessibility to state-of-the-art tools to institutions that would otherwise lack the resources to obtain them; at the same time, it is enriching cyber security and forensics education in community colleges while creating a better pipeline to four-year colleges. Successful development of cloud computing laboratories for this purpose is resulting in best practices and lessons learned for other disciplines and institutions.