Education DCL: EAGER: Developing a Cyber-Aerial Computing Curriculum for Improving Sky-of-Privacy-Things Education through a Modular-Based Integrated Framework

低空无人驾驶飞行器，商业上称为无人机，正在迅速部署，作为建立下一代无处不在的计算和通信基础设施的主要组成部分。然而，无人机经常被目睹在私人财产、禁区和网络关键基础设施上空飞行，非法收集隐私和安全敏感信息。因此，项目团队正在构建网络空中计算课程，让本科工程专业学生接触无人机技术以及潜在的以无人机为中心的网络和隐私威胁和攻击，发展他们的领域知识、道德和实践经验。该项目研究了社会科学探究（SSI）和翻转学习（FL）框架的使用，以发展网络安全劳动力参与道德知情实践的能力，并深入了解用于各种个人和社会目的的无人机技术机制。该项目还将为其他工程学科提供一个从多个角度教授网络安全和隐私的框架，以教育他们的学生。该项目的目标是为本科工程专业的学生开发一个新的基于研究的课程，以从事以无人机为中心的网络安全和隐私的道德探索。首先，该课程采用了一种创新的基于无人机的研究范式，利用无人机为用户提供保护，防止使用个人无人机侵犯隐私和泄露信息。其次，项目团队使用基于设计的研究，以提高基于SSI和FL框架的课程质量，促进学生的内容掌握，高阶思维和道德决策。第三，该课程有四个主要的学习模块与SSI为基础的驾驶问题。每个模块为期四周，采用相同的教学系统，使用SSI活动和动手实践，以确保这种干预按预期进行。最后，形成性和总结性评估让学生参与真实的任务和道德讨论。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。

Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles, commercially known as drones, are rapidly being deployed as a major component to build the next generation of ubiquitous computing and communication infrastructure. However, drones are frequently witnessed misbehaving by flying over private properties, restricted areas, and cyber-critical infrastructures, collecting privacy- and security-sensitive information illegally. Thus, the project team is building a Cyber-Aerial Computing curriculum to expose undergraduate engineering students to drone technology and potential drone-centric cyber and privacy threats and attacks, developing their domain knowledge, ethics, and hands-on experience. The project examines the use of Socio-Scientific Inquiry (SSI) and Flipped Learning (FL) frameworks in developing the cybersecurity workforce's ability to engage in ethically informed practices with an advanced understanding of drone technology mechanisms for various personal and societal purposes. A framework for teaching cybersecurity and privacy from multiple perspectives will also be provided to other engineering disciplines to educate their students.The project goal focuses on developing a new research-based curriculum for undergraduate engineering students to engage in an ethical exploration of drone-centric cybersecurity and privacy. First, the curriculum features an innovative drone-based research paradigm that leverages drones for users to protect against privacy invasion and information leakage using personal drones. Second, the project team uses design-based research to improve the curriculum's quality based on the SSI and FL frameworks and promote students' content mastery, higher-order thinking, and ethical decision-making. Third, the curriculum has four major learning modules with SSI-based driving questions. Each module spans four weeks with the same instructional system using SSI activities and hands-on practices to ensure this intervention performs as intended. Finally, formative and summative assessments engage students in authentic tasks and ethics discussions. The project will contribute to improving Sky-of-Privacy-Things education and the growth of the cybersecurity workforce.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.