Cyber Data Analytics Education, Curriculum, and Workforce Development

该项目将通过制定网络数据分析技术人员发展计划，帮助解决国家对熟练网络安全专业人员的需求。该项目将提供网络安全和数据科学的混合教育，涵盖小企业面临的风险、威胁和漏洞。该项目将重点关注大专学生，并将通过向商业、医疗保健、会计、电子和刑事司法等学位课程的学生提供行业相关课程，将网络数据分析扩展到多个学科。这个项目的一个新颖的组成部分是创建文化响应课程内容，将根据夏威夷的传统和习俗进行本地化。该项目将为网络数据分析教学提供基于证据的模块，这些模块可以纳入社区大学的现有课程。该项目将通过研究该计划对教师和学生的影响来增加技术教育的知识库。此外，该研究将检查该计划的哪些方面可以提高学生的完成度和就业安置。四个目标将指导项目团队的工作。首先是开设四门新课程和一个新的网络数据分析在线证书。二是为非计算机专业的学生提供进入网络数据分析领域的机会。三是培训社区学院教师如何使用课程模块。第四，也是最后一点，是让STEM CTE的高中教师、高中辅导员以及来自女性和少数族裔等代表性不足群体的学生参与到基于创业项目的学习机会中来。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。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。

This project will help to address the Nation’s need for skilled cybersecurity professionals by developing a Cyber Data Analytics technician workforce development program. This program will deliver a blended education of cybersecurity and data science that will cover the risks, threats, and vulnerabilities faced by small businesses. The project will focus on associate degree students and will extend Cyber Data Analytics across multiple disciplines, by offering industry relevant courses to students from degree programs in business, healthcare, accounting, electronics, and criminal justice. A novel component of this project is the creation of culturally responsive curriculum content that will be localized for Hawaiian traditions and customs. This project will produce evidence-based modules for teaching Cyber Data Analytics that can be incorporated into existing curriculum in community colleges. The project will add to the knowledge base for technician education by studying the impact of this program on teachers and students. Moreover, the research will examine what aspects of the program increase student completion and job placement. Four objectives will guide the work of the project team. First is to create four new courses and a new online Certificate for Cyber Data Analytics. Second is to provide opportunities for students in non-computing associate degree programs to be introduced to field of Cyber Data Analytics. Third is to train faculty in community colleges in the use of the curriculum modules. Fourth, and finally, is to engage high school teachers in STEM CTE, high school counselors, and students from underrepresented groups such as women and minorities, to participate in entrepreneurship project-based learning opportunities. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced technology fields that drive the nation's economy.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.