IUSE: Collaborative Project: Building Virtual Research, Interactive, Service, and Experiential Learning Modules for Cyber Security Education

该项目将有助于满足更多具有网络安全概念和技能基础的毕业生的迫切需求。它将利用网络基础设施学习经验，通过使用基于移动云的虚拟实验室（MCVE），向印第安纳大学-普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校（IUPUI）、罗切斯特理工学院（RIT）和田纳西州立大学的计算机科学（CS）、信息技术（It）和计算机工程（CE）学生介绍网络安全材料。现有的课程可以通过增加相关的实验模块来加强，这种方法将使学生有可能直接看到如何将计算机科学和工程概念用于实际问题的解决。该项目将促进招聘和留住计算机科学、计算机行政和信息技术专业的学生从事网络安全方面的职业。此外，一些专业发展和外展研讨会将有助于增加准备提供使用相同基础系统的课程的大学教师的数量，并使高中教师做好准备，至少让学生了解网络安全问题和实践。本项目所涉及的教育活动将使用RISE（研究、互动、服务和体验）学习组件来教授网络安全概念和技能。学习组件将利用MCVE作为交付RISE实验室模块的机制。MCVE基础设施基于智能手机和云计算资源，这些资源可以在三所大学和亚马逊EC2系统中获得。IUPUI的云安全测试平台和RIT计算网格将用于创建可以进行安全实验的虚拟机和网络拓扑。田纳西州立大学的云将用于提供恶意软件数据库。最后，可以使用Amazon Web Services进行安全实现实验。这个资源集合将允许使用MCVE的学生实验一系列系统、网络和云配置。学生将有机会通过跨越CS， IT和CE课程的众多课程与MCVE一起工作，解决安全编程，密码学，安全架构，网络安全和安全策略。项目评估将采用混合方法进行，特别关注学生通过RISE实验室模块获得的技能和增强的能力，学生对网络安全概念和技术之间联系的理解的变化，CS， CE和IT学生招聘和保留的变化。评估将包括学生调查、学习成果测量、教师访谈和课堂观察。本项目将由本科教育司通过IUSE计划和研究生教育司通过SFS计划资助。

This project will help address the critical need for more graduates who have a foundation in cybersecurity concepts and skills. It will utilize a cyberinfrastructure learning experience, through the use of a mobile cloud-based virtual laboratory (MCVE), to introduce cybersecurity material to computer science (CS), information technology (IT), and computer engineering (CE) students at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI), Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), and Tennessee State University. Existing courses can be enhanced with the addition of relevant lab modules, and this approach will make it possible for students to see directly how computer science and engineering concepts can be used in real problem-solving. This project will promote recruitment and retention of CS, CE, and IT students for careers in cybersecurity. In addition, a number of professional development and outreach workshops will help increase the number of university faculty prepared to offer courses that utilize the same underlying system, and also prepare high school teachers to, at minimum, make students aware of cybersecurity issues and practices. The educational activities involved in this project will use the RISE (Research, Interactive, Service, and Experiential) learning components in order to teach cybersecurity concepts and skills. The learning components will utilize MCVE as the mechanism for delivering the RISE laboratory modules. The MCVE infrastructure is based on smartphones and cloud computing resources that are available at the three universities and through the Amazon EC2 system. The cloud security testbed at IUPUI and the RIT computation grid will be used to create virtual machines and network topologies on which security experiments can be conducted. The TSU Cloud at Tennessee State will be used to serve a malware database. Finally, the Amazon Web Services can be used for security implementation experiments. This collection of resources will allow students who work with the MCVE to experiment with a range of system, network, and cloud configurations. Students will have the opportunity to work with MCVE through numerous courses that span the CS, IT, and CE curricula, addressing secure programming, cryptography, security architecture, network security, and security policy. Project evaluation will be done with a mixed methods approach, specifically focusing on the skills and increased competency students gain as a result of the RISE lab modules, change in student understanding of the connection between cybersecurity concepts and techniques, changes in recruitment and retention of CS, CE, and IT students. Evaluation will include student surveys, learning outcome measures, instructor interviews, and classroom observations. This project will be funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education, through the IUSE program, and the Division of Graduate Education, through the SFS program.