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

EDURange项目是常青州立学院和刘易斯与克拉克学院的合作项目，将通过提供动手练习、学生帮助台和网络研讨会来支持教师讲授网络安全。这些资源将被设计得易于部署，并将是互动的、竞争的和协作的，以确保学生的参与。这些资源的可用性将使几乎没有相关背景的计算机科学教师更容易进行安全教学，并将增加教授网络安全概念的学校的数量。因此，该项目将培养出更多具备分析技能的学生，以确保太平洋西北地区的计算机资产安全，从而有助于确保美国未来的技术竞争力。这些资源将与IEEE/ACM计算机科学课程2013报告中定义的概念和学习成果相关联。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EDURange（一种灵活的、基于云的教学基础设施）改进练习；帮助他们在课堂上进行动手安全练习，并提供课程资源，(3)学生参与？发展他们的技能，利用他们的才能和知识，并指导他们成为下一代教师和研究人员。(4)教育研究——调查分析技能的获得。对资源的评估将侧重于四项活动：(1)对资源使用的频率和范围进行定量评估和总结，(2)对练习如何映射或表达CS2013的网络安全知识单元进行定性评估，(3)对教师在其课程中使用资源的经验进行评估，以及(4)对安全教师、专业人员和学生使用资源的经验进行评估。

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.