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

低空无人机，在商业上被称为无人机，正迅速被部署为建设下一代无处不在的计算和通信基础设施的主要组件。然而，无人机经常被目睹行为不端，飞越私人财产、禁区和网络关键基础设施，非法收集隐私和安全敏感信息。因此，项目团队正在构建一门网络-空中计算课程，让本科工程专业的学生接触到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，培养他们的领域知识、伦理和实践经验。该项目审查了社会科学调查(SSI)和翻转学习(FL)框架的使用，以发展网络安全工作人员的能力，使其能够从事道德知情的做法，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。该项目的目标是为工科本科生开发一门新的研究型课程，以参与以无人机为中心的网络安全和隐私的伦理探索。首先，该课程以创新的基于无人机的研究范式为特色，利用无人机为用户提供保护，以防止使用个人无人机侵犯隐私和信息泄露。其次，项目团队使用基于设计的研究来提高基于SSI和FL框架的课程质量，并促进学生的内容掌握、更高层次的思维和道德决策。第三，该课程有四个主要的学习模块，带有基于SSI的驾驶问题。每个模块使用相同的教学系统，使用SSI活动和动手练习，持续四周，以确保干预按预期进行。最后，形成性和终结性评估让学生参与真实的任务和伦理讨论。该项目将有助于改善隐私天空教育和网络安全工作队伍的发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.