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，商业上被称为无人机，正迅速被部署为构建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，项目团队正在建立一个网络航空计算课程，让工科本科学生了解无人机技术和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）框架在发展网络安全劳动力参与道德知情实践的能力方面的使用，并对各种个人和社会目的的无人机技术机制有了深入的了解。从多个角度教授网络安全和隐私的框架也将提供给其他工程学科，以教育他们的学生。该项目的目标是为工程本科学生开发一个新的研究型课程，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，该课程以创新的无人机研究范式为特色，利用无人机为用户提供隐私侵犯和个人无人机信息泄露的保护。其次，项目团队采用基于设计的研究方法，以SSI和FL框架为基础，提高课程质量，促进学生对内容的掌握、高阶思维和道德决策。第三，课程设置四大学习模块，以ssi为基础的驾驶题。每个模块为期四周，采用相同的教学系统，使用SSI活动和实践实践，以确保干预效果达到预期效果。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。该项目将有助于改善Sky-of-Privacy-Things教育和网络安全劳动力的增长。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.