Collaborative Project: Developing Faculty Expertise in Information Assurance through Case Studies and Hands-on Experiences

三所大学，北卡罗来纳农工州立大学、北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校和田纳西大学查塔努加分校，正在通过两个教师发展研讨会合作发展信息保障（IA）和计算机安全方面的教师专业知识。为期两年的讲习班涉及来自两年制、四年制和少数民族学院和大学的36名教员。这些讲习班正在帮助参与者将IA实验室和案例研究整合到参与者所在机构的课程中。这些讲习班的目的是提高教师的专业知识和他们所在机构在信息保障领域培养多样化劳动力的能力。为教师参与者提供个性化的指导计划和后续援助。除了培养教师专业知识外，该项目还改善了信息保障教育方面的伙伴关系。该项目通过培养规模更大、更多样化、拥有更好的信息安全技能的信息安全人才，提高了美国的整体信息安全和关键基础设施保护水平。通过讲习班传播的课程材料可用于计算机科学、软件工程、信息技术和商业等多个学科，并通过会议、出版物和专门网站向更广泛的受众提供。该项目正在建立一个跨多个学科的安全教育专家社区。广泛的主题覆盖和创新的教学技巧的引入吸引了来自不同背景的教师参与者。

Three universities, North Carolina A & T State University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, are collaboratively developing faculty expertise in information assurance (IA) and computer security through two faculty development workshops. Covering two years, the workshops involve thirty-six faculty members from two-year, four-year, and minority colleges and universities. The workshops are helping participants to integrate IA labs and case studies into the curricula at the participants' home institutions. The workshops are designed to increase the faculty members' expertise and their home institution's capacity to produce a diverse workforce in the area of information assurance. Personalized instruction plans and follow-up assistance are provided to faculty participants. Besides building faculty expertise, the project is improving partnerships in information assurance education. This project is improving overall information security and critical infrastructure protection in the U.S. by producing a larger and more diverse IA workforce with better IA skills. The curriculum materials disseminated through the workshops can be adopted across multiple disciplines such as computer science, software engineering, information technology and business, and are being made available to a broader audience through conferences, publication, and a dedicated website. The project is building a community of security education experts across multiple disciplines. Broad coverage of IA topics and the introduction of innovative teaching techniques are attracting faculty participants with diverse backgrounds.