IUSE: Collaborative Project: Engaged Student Learning: Design and Development, Level I: Broadening the Path to the STEM Profession Through Cybersecurity Learning

IUSE：合作项目：学生参与学习：设计与开发，第一级：通过网络安全学习拓宽 STEM 职业之路

• 批准号: 1620868
• 负责人: Kaiqi Xiong
• 金额: $ 15.4万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1620868&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUSE; Collaborative; Project; Engaged; Student

The significance and importance of this project resides in the diversification and broadening of the STEM talent pipeline in cybersecurity in predominantly undergraduate and liberal arts schools (small institutions). This is achieved by the creation of a curriculum that accommodates students of different levels of computer literacy, that focuses on experiential learning, and that utilizes institutional collaboration via cloud computing. This project will mitigate the challenges small institutions currently face in the cybersecurity area, for example, a tight computer science curriculum and the inability to support the expensive infrastructure required for cybersecurity education. Integrated into this project is research as to whether using this new curriculum and the related online projects, students will attain the same, or an increase, level of cybersecurity learning. This project will address the above challenges by creating a range of cybersecurity learning opportunities that emphasize hands-on and realistic experimentation for students in small institutions. First, this project will attract a diverse population of students by introducing cybersecurity topics through multiple paths of study and engagement. Students will be introduced to cybersecurity concepts through manageable, stand alone course modules and laboratory exercises. Interested students can study further by taking two cybersecurity focused courses and cybersecurity capstone projects created by this project. Using all these materials students can create a cybersecurity concentration. Second, the project will use the Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) infrastructure in the development of empirical labs and the capstone project assignments. GENI offers an affordable cloud solution to small institutions that lack the infrastructure to support sophisticated computer labs. The learning impact of the new curriculum will be evaluated by quantitative competency assessments that are administered yearly. Student cybersecurity persistence will be assessed by a longitudinal study of the number of cybersecurity courses taken during a student's course of study. Qualitative assessment of the curriculum will take the form of student interviews and focus groups to gauge attitude towards course modules, perception of learning gains and comfort level with the pedagogies employed. In addition to the collaboration of three college level institutions, this project will leverage relationships with local community colleges to further develop a cybersecurity workforce. This partnership provides a diverse set of students that will support the evidence-based evaluation of student cybersecurity learning via this approach.

该项目的重要性和重要性在于，在本科和文科学校（小型机构）中，STEM人才渠道的多元化和扩展在网络安全方面的多元化和扩展。这是通过创建一个课程来实现的，该课程适合不同级别的计算机素养的学生，重点是体验式学习，并通过云计算利用机构协作。该项目将减轻网络安全领域中目前面临的小型机构的挑战，例如，计算机科学课程紧密，无法支持网络安全教育所需的昂贵基础设施。 整合到该项目中的是研究是否使用该新课程和相关的在线项目，学生将获得相同的网络安全学习水平。 该项目将通过创造一系列网络安全学习机会来应对上述挑战，这些网络安全学习机会强调小型机构的学生动手实验和现实实验。首先，该项目将通过通过多种学习和参与的途径引入网络安全主题来吸引各种各样的学生。通过可管理的独立课程模块和实验室练习，将向学生介绍网络安全概念。有兴趣的学生可以通过参加该项目创建的两个以网络安全为重点的课程和网络安全顶石项目来进一步学习。使用所有这些材料，学生可以创建网络安全浓度。其次，该项目将使用全球环境进行网络创新（GENI）基础架构，并在经验实验室和Capstone项目分配的开发中使用。 Geni为缺乏支持复杂计算机实验室的基础架构的小型机构提供了负担得起的云解决方案。新课程的学习影响将通过每年进行的定量能力评估进行评估。 学生网络安全持久性将通过对学生学习过程中的网络安全课程的数量进行纵向研究来评估。对课程的定性评估将采用学生访谈的形式和焦点小组，以评估对课程模块的态度，对学习成就的看法以及所使用的教学法的舒适度。除了三个大学一级机构的合作外，该项目还将利用与当地社区大学的关系，进一步发展网络安全劳动力。 这种合作伙伴关系提供了一系列的学生，这些学生将通过这种方法支持对学生网络安全学习的基于证据的评估。