Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: Building an Electronic Voting Technology Inspired Interactive Teaching and Learning Framework for Cybersecurity Education

信息技术发展迅速，计算机科学知识库随之急剧扩大。这给网络安全教育带来了新的联系、挑战和机遇。由这些变化产生的两个主要教育主题是互动学习和动态/自适应计算机科学课程。电子投票是一种独特的技术，具有丰富（甚至相互冲突）的功能，在与这些教育主题相关的教育中发挥作用。最近的研究表明，基于电子投票技术的课程在课堂上使用可以提高学生的学习成果。本计划旨在建立一个电子投票技术启发的网络安全教育互动教学框架，以有效改善学生的学习成果，并满足动态/自适应计算机科学课程的需要。该项目以电子投票为基础开展网络安全教育。它通过开发和使用可组合和交互式模块，强调以学生为中心的交互式学习。可组合的安全主题模块允许讲师形成一个全面或轻量级的信息安全课程，或将安全主题集成到其他课程中。它可以支持动态/自适应计算机科学课程。互动式教与学模块实现以学生为中心的广泛而深入的互动式学习，实现以学生为中心的互动和全程参与，实现不同教与学活动之间、主题之间的系统衔接/过渡。它支持更广泛的教学活动，不仅在课堂内，也在课堂外，不仅涉及课堂讲课，也涉及课堂项目。它支持教师和学生之间、学生和学生之间以及学生和电子投票系统之间的六种以学生为中心的交互。因此，该项目显著提高了学生在网络安全方面的学习成果。它将吸引更多的学生，甚至本科生，代表性不足的学生群体和/或高中生，进入网络安全领域，并引导更多的本科生/少数民族/高中生进行安全研究。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。

Information technology advances quickly and the computer science knowledge base expands dramatically along with it. These bring about new interconnections, challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity education. Two main educational themes resulting from these changes are interactive learning and dynamic/adaptive computer science course curricula. E-voting is a unique technology with rich (even conflicting) features that play roles in education related to these educational themes. Recent studies show that lessons based on E-voting technology enhance student learning outcomes when used in the classroom. This project aims to build an Electronic Voting Technology Inspired Interactive Teaching and Learning Framework for Cybersecurity Education that will effectively improve student learning outcomes and meet the needs of dynamic/adaptive computer science course curricula. This project addresses cybersecurity education by using e-voting as a basis. It emphasizes student-centered interactive learning by developing and using composable and interactive modules. The composable security topic modules allow an instructor to form a comprehensive or light-weighted information security curriculum or to integrate security topics into other courses. It can support dynamic/adaptive computer science course curricula. The interactive teaching and learning modules enable student-centered extensive and deep interactive learning, e.g., student-centered interactions and full engagement in the entire learning process and systematic inter-connection/transition among different teaching and learning activities and between topics. It supports broader teaching and learning activities not only within the classroom but also outside the classroom, not only involving class lecturing, but also involving class projects. It supports six student-centered interactions between the instructor and students, between students and students, and between students and the E-voting system. As a result, the project significantly enhances student learning outcomes in cybersecurity. It will attract more students, even undergraduates, underrepresented student groups and/or high school students, to the cybersecurity field and lead more undergraduate/minority/high school students to security research.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.