Enhancing Undergraduate Cybersecurity Education using a Mission-Based Learning Model

使用基于任务的学习模型加强本科网络安全教育

• 批准号: 2142622
• 负责人: Gaby Dagher
• 金额: $ 29.24万
• 依托单位: Boise State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2142622&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Undergraduate; Cybersecurity; Education; using

This project aims to serve the national interest by enhancing undergraduate cybersecurity education and equipping college students with the technical and cognitive skills that are needed to satisfy the needs of the cybersecurity workforce. This project uses an evidence-based approach in which student teams are sent on classroom missions to solve contemporary cybersecurity problems. Mission-based learning increases student engagement and helps to improve the technical, problem-solving, metacognitive, and interpersonal skills that are needed to apply cybersecurity principles in the cybersecurity workforce. As students complete their missions, they learn cybersecurity theories and the approaches cybercriminals take to identify and exploit vulnerabilities. The missions will also provide students with an opportunity to develop the skills required to work individually and in teams. Students will conduct research and learn to think like cybercriminals to better understand adversarial practices and to develop the defensive skills required to respond to these practices. The lesson plans for the cybersecurity missions will serve as a blueprint for other instructors interested in transforming their teaching approach by adopting mission-based learning into their cybersecurity programs.This project will advance our knowledge and understanding of cybersecurity education, by introducing the mission-based learning model, and evaluating its effectiveness as a learning method in cybersecurity. The project team will develop instructor and student lesson plan materials for a set of missions in an existing computer science course. Senior undergraduate or graduate computer science students will be recruited and trained to serve as coaches for students during their missions. The project aims to answer the following research question: how does mission-based learning improve cybersecurity education with respect to student achievement, competency, and attitude? This project will advance our understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of using adversarial practices to teach cybersecurity and will help instructors to design cybersecurity educational materials that utilize the adversarial practice approach. To extend the impact of this project, the lesson plans will be disseminated to the national cybersecurity community through publications, websites, and workshops. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools. Co-funding for this project is being provided by the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Program because the goals of the project align with the overall aims of the education track of that funding opportunity.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目旨在通过加强本科网络安全教育，为大学生提供满足网络安全劳动力需求所需的技术和认知技能，从而为国家利益服务。该项目采用基于证据的方法，学生团队被派往课堂任务，以解决当代网络安全问题。基于任务的学习提高了学生的参与度，并有助于提高在网络安全劳动力中应用网络安全原则所需的技术，解决问题，元认知和人际交往技能。当学生完成任务时，他们学习网络安全理论以及网络犯罪分子识别和利用漏洞的方法。这些任务还将为学生提供一个机会，培养个人和团队工作所需的技能。学生将进行研究，并学习像网络犯罪分子一样思考，以更好地了解对抗性做法，并发展应对这些做法所需的防御技能。网络安全任务的课程计划将成为其他有兴趣通过将基于任务的学习纳入网络安全课程来改变教学方法的教师的蓝图。该项目将通过引入基于任务的学习模式并评估其作为网络安全学习方法的有效性来提高我们对网络安全教育的认识和理解。项目小组将为现有计算机科学课程的一系列任务编写教员和学生的课程计划材料。高级本科生或研究生计算机科学的学生将被招募和培训，担任教练的学生在他们的任务。该项目旨在回答以下研究问题：基于任务的学习如何改善网络安全教育与学生的成绩，能力和态度？该项目将促进我们对使用对抗性实践来教授网络安全的优点和缺点的理解，并将帮助教师设计利用对抗性实践方法的网络安全教育材料。为了扩大该项目的影响，将通过出版物、网站和讲习班向国家网络安全界传播课程计划。NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生STEM教育的有效性。通过学生的学习轨道，该计划支持创建，探索和实施有前途的做法和工具。该项目的共同资助由安全和值得信赖的网络空间（SaTC）计划提供，因为该项目的目标与该资助机会的教育轨道的总体目标一致。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。