EDU: Enhancing Cybersecurity Education for Native Students Using Virtual Laboratories

该提案将在Yakama Nation和位于博瑟尔的华盛顿大学之间建立教育联系，以利用虚拟实验室加强对土著学生的网络安全教育。实验室将使用场景来提供网络安全实践方面的实践经验。该项目将采用一种新的网络安全教育方法，重点关注土著学生的既定成功指标。该项目将侧重于一种教育设计，在被定义为学术成功的关键指标的领域吸引学生。它将加强学生在这些关键指示性领域的经验，并将开发一个架构和软件，可供其他教育组织通过虚拟实验室共享资源。该项目的预期成果是一个由两门课程组成的课程，可以在任何级别教授，但重点是初中和高中学生。这些课程将利用约翰·比格斯（John Biggs）开发的观察学习成果分类结构（Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes）来处理材料并验证学生的教育进展。该项目将提供社区建设和教育经验，吸引各种学生和教师参与，重点是为传统上高等教育成功率低的学生群体提供成功的机会。安全和值得信赖的网络空间（SaTC）计划资助从值得信赖的计算系统角度解决网络安全问题的提案;社会、行为和经济科学角度;以及完全专注于网络安全教育的提案。该项目将覆盖在传统高等教育课程中没有取得成功的学生群体，并将帮助这些群体中的现有学生和未来学生建立一个社区。在这个项目中开发的课程和软件将能够被重用的其他本地学生社区，希望建立虚拟实验室，无论其特定的文化背景。该提案将开发一种网络安全教育模式，可用于以低成本为原住民学生提供高质量和实用的教育，并旨在鼓励他们继续他们的教育途径。

This proposal will develop an educational link between the Yakama Nation and the University of Washington at Bothell to enhance Cybersecurity education for Native students using virtual laboratories. The laboratories will use scenarios to provide hands-on experience in the practical aspects of Cybersecurity. The project will use a new approach to Cybersecurity education that focuses on established success indicators for Native students. The project will focus on an educational design that appeals to the students in areas that are defined as key indicators of academic success. It will enhance students' experiences in these key indicative areas and will develop an architecture and software that can be utilized by other educational organizations to share resources via a virtual laboratory. The expected outcome of this project is a program consisting of two courses that can be taught at any level, but are focused on middle and high school students. These courses will utilize the Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes taxonomy developed by John Biggs to approach the material and validate the educational progress of the students. The project will provide a community-building and educational experience that will engage a diverse set of students and teachers focusing on the opportunity for success for student groups that have traditionally poor success rates in higher education. The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program funds proposals that address Cybersecurity from a Trustworthy Computing Systems perspective; a Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences perspective; and proposals focusing entirely on Cybersecurity Education.The project will reach groups of students that have not had success in traditional higher education programs and will help to establish a community between existing students and future students from these groups. The courses and software developed in this project will be able to be reused for other Native student communities that want to establish virtual laboratories, regardless of their particular cultural backgrounds. This proposal will develop a model for Cybersecurity education that can be used to provide high quality and practical education at a low cost to Native students and is designed to encourage them to continue their education pathways.