EDURange: Supporting cyber security education with hands-on exercises, a student-staffed help-desk, and webinars

EDURange项目是长荣州立学院与刘易斯和克拉克学院的合作项目，将通过提供动手练习、学生工作人员帮助台和网络研讨会来支持教授网络安全的教师。这些资源将设计为易于部署，并具有互动性、竞争性和协作性，以确保学生参与其中。这些资源的可获得性将使以前几乎没有什么背景的计算机科学教师更容易教授安全知识，并将增加教授网络安全概念的学校数量。因此，该项目将培养出更多具备确保太平洋西北地区计算资产安全所需的分析技能的学生，进而有助于确保美国未来的技术竞争力。这些资源将与IEEE/ACM CS课程2013年报告中定义的概念和学习成果相联系。对这些资源的支持将由学生运营的帮助台和用户界面提供，教师可以根据课程的内容和难度修改练习。将为学生提供背景材料，使这些练习适用于各种计算机科学课程。这些资源将满足四个重要需求：(1)扩大和传播技术？使用灵活的基于云的教学基础设施EDURange改进练习，(2)教师发展？帮助他们在课堂上使用实际操作的安全练习，并提供课程资源，(3)学生参与？发展他们的技能，利用他们的天赋和知识，指导他们成为下一代教师和研究人员，以及(4)教育研究--调查分析技能的获得。对资源的评估将集中在四个活动上：(1)对资源的使用频率和广度进行量化评估和总结；(2)对练习绘制或表达CS2013的网络安全知识单元的情况进行定性评估；(3)评估教师在课程中使用资源的经验；以及(4)评估安全教师、专业人员和学生使用资源的经验。

The EDURange project, a collaboration between Evergreen State College and Lewis and Clark College, will support faculty teaching cyber security by providing hands-on exercises, a student-staffed help-desk, and webinars. These resources will be designed to be easy to deploy and will be interactive, competitive and collaborative to ensure student engagement. The availability of these resources will make it easier for computer science faculty with little prior background to teach security across, and will increase the number of schools teaching cyber security concepts. As a result this project will produce more students with the analytical skills required to secure computing assets in the Pacific Northwest and in turn will help to ensure American technical competitiveness in the future. The resources will be linked to the concepts and learning outcomes defined in the IEEE/ACM CS Curricula 2013 report. Support for these resources will be provided by a student-run help desk and a user interface that will allow faculty to modify exercises to fit the content and level of difficulty of their classes. Background material will be provided for students to make the exercises applicable to a variety of computer science classes. These resources will fulfill four important needs: (1) expanding and disseminating technology ? improving exercises using EDURange, a flexible, cloud-based teaching infrastructure, (2) faculty development ? helping them use hands-on security exercises in their classrooms and providing curricular resources, (3) student engagement ? developing their skills, leveraging their talent and knowledge, and mentoring them to become the next generation of teachers and researchers, and (4) education research --investigating the acquisition of analytical skills. Assessment of the resources will focus on four activities: (1) a quantitative evaluation and summary of how often and how widely the resources are used, (2) a qualitative assessment of how well exercises map or express the cyber security knowledge units of CS2013, (3) an assessment of faculty experience using the resources in their courses, and (4) an evaluation of the experience using the resources by security faculty, professionals, and students.