Expanding the Pipeline: Immersive Learning Curriculum Development for High School Cybersecurity Education

普渡大学西北分校正在开发一门创新的网络安全课程，为高中生提供身临其境的学习环境中的动手活动。将为高中环境下的网络安全教学开展以下活动：虚拟现实三维游戏、机器人编程游戏、实用伦理黑客实验室和基于模拟案例的网络取证实验室。该项目预计将为高中网络安全教育提供身临其境的、基于学习的课程。其中一个目标是最大限度地减少准备工作，以及希望将网络安全纳入课堂教育的教师对网络安全技能和内容知识的要求。这将解决缺乏网络安全教育者的问题，并将使农村地区的学生更容易获得网络安全教育。通过拟议的成果，更多的学生将在高中阶段接触到网络安全教育，并可能更有动力在该领域追求高等教育和职业生涯，这最终将加强未来网络安全队伍的发展。将开发虚拟现实三维游戏，模拟系统漏洞、攻击、安全防护技术和社会工程骗局。将为机器人开发机器人编程游戏，如Sparki和Raspberry Pi，以模拟利用编程安全漏洞的机器人功能和安全攻击场景。网络取证调查案例和网络安全攻击实验室将基于虚拟网络系统开发，该系统模拟具有业务功能和安全组件的经典企业系统。虚拟现实三维游戏、机器人编程游戏、网络取证案例和网络安全攻击实验室预计将与其他教学方法整合，通过互动实践促进学生教育。通过该项目开发的网络安全课程和教师辅助材料将通过与GenCyber学生和教师夏令营以及K12教师会议和组织的共享，向网络安全教育界共享和传播。

Purdue University Northwest is developing an innovative cybersecurity curriculum to provide high school students with hands-on activities in an immersive learning environment. The following activities will be developed for cybersecurity teaching in high school environments: virtual reality three-dimension games, robotic programming games, practical ethical hacking labs, and cyber forensics labs based on simulated cases. This project is expected to provide an immersive, learning-based curriculum for high school cybersecurity education. One of the goals is to minimize preparation efforts, and requirements of cybersecurity skills and content knowledge from teachers looking to incorporate cybersecurity into their classroom education. This will address the lack of cybersecurity educators and will make cybersecurity education more accessible to students in rural areas. Through the proposed outcomes, more students will be exposed to cybersecurity education during high school and are likely to be more motivated to pursue higher education and careers in this field, which will ultimately strengthen future cybersecurity workforce development.Virtual reality three-dimension games will be developed to simulate system vulnerabilities, attacks, security protection techniques and social engineering scams. Robotic programming games will be developed for robots, such as Sparki and Raspberry Pi, to simulate robotic functionality and security attack scenarios that take advantage of programming security vulnerabilities. Cyber forensics investigation cases and cybersecurity attack labs will be developed based on a virtual network system that simulate a classic enterprise system with business functioning and security components. The virtual reality three dimension games, robotic programming games, cyber forensics cases, and cybersecurity attack labs are expected to be integrated with other instructional methods to promote student education through interactive practices. The cybersecurity curriculum and instructor companion materials developed through this project will be shared and disseminated to the cybersecurity education community via sharing with GenCyber student and teacher summer camps, and in K12 teacher conferences and organizations.