EAGER: The Midwest CyberCenter

EAGER：中西部网络中心

• 批准号: 1445384
• 负责人: John Sands
• 金额: $ 29.75万
• 依托单位: Moraine Valley Community College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1445384&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Midwest; CyberCenter

Moraine Valley Community College (MVCC) seeks to perform a feasibility study of replicating and refining the Brookdale Community College (BCC) CyberCenter Program (NSF funded as DUE-1331170). Both projects design, implement and evaluate an innovative pathway from cyber talent to cyber workforce. It includes a scalable, competition-driven, hands-on education model that has a potential to help with the nation's critical shortage of cybersecurity workforce. It will incorporate on-line courses, virtual labs and access tools to decrease overall per student cost in the CyberCenter program. The student cohort will include veterans and other underrepresented populations. The project will introduce significant modifications to the existing project that focus on maintaining student preparedness while reducing program cost. The students will be provided a 24-hour access to a virtual learning environment and will be required to complete a series of labs aligned with the NICE framework. If successful, the proposed competition-based model for developing the cybersecurity technical talent has a potential for dissemination and implementation in a large number of the 1,200 community colleges nationwide. Documenting that the available open courses are sufficient to obtain industry certifications will significantly decrease the overall cost of implementing or replicating this program.A comparative analysis will be performed between the project's participants and data collected on the first cohort of the BCC program. The team will specifically measure each participant's ability to pass industry certification exams, the scores they earn as well as their overall readiness for both industry residency programs and the permanent placement in the Cybersecurity workforce. The project team will redesign elements of the BCC program to utilize existing introductory level curriculum developed with funding from the NSF. Participants will then complete the advanced SANS courses. The original project is in the second year and this project is testing a variation of the approach to increase experiential learning and open course material for foundational courses. Both projects are considered a pilot of a possible large-scale implementation in multiple states and in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The DHS Cyber Skills Task Force recommended creation of a community college program that would feed technical talent to mission critical cyber components of DHS. It is very likely that this pilot may be implemented widely to respond to DHS Task Force recommendations.

Moraine Valley社区学院（MVCC）试图对Brookdale社区学院（BCC）网络中心计划进行可行性研究（NSF资助为Due-1331170）。这两个项目都设计，实施和评估从网络人才到网络劳动力的创新途径。它包括可扩展的，竞争驱动的动手教育模式，有可能帮助该国严重缺乏网络安全劳动力。它将结合在线课程，虚拟实验室和访问工具，以降低网络中心计划中的每一个学生成本的总体成本。学生队列将包括退伍军人和其他代表人数不足的人群。该项目将对现有项目进行重大修改，该项目着重于在降低计划成本的同时维持学生准备。将为学生提供24小时的虚拟学习环境访问权限，并将要求完成一系列与NICE框架保持一致的实验室。如果成功，则提出的基于竞争的模型用于开发网络安全技术人才的潜力，可以在全国范围内的1,200所社区学院中进行传播和实施。记录可用的开放课程足以获得行业认证将大大降低实施或复制此计划的总体成本。项目参与者与BCC计划的第一个队列中收集的数据之间将进行比较分析。该团队将专门衡量每个参与者通过行业认证考试的能力，他们所获得的分数以及对行业居住计划的整体准备以及在网络安全劳动力中的永久安置。项目团队将重新设计BCC计划的元素，以利用NSF资助的现有入门级课程。然后，参与者将完成高级SANS课程。最初的项目是在第二年，该项目正在测试增加体验式学习和基础课程开放课程材料的方法的变化。这两个项目均被认为是在多个州以及与国土安全部（DHS）合作的大规模实施的试点。 DHS网络技能工作队建议创建一个社区大学计划，该计划将为DHS的关键网络组件提供技术人才。该飞行员很可能会被广泛实施以应对DHS工作队的建议。