EDURange: Supporting cyber security education with hands-on exercises, a student-staffed help-desk, and webinars

EDURange：通过实践练习、学生服务台和网络研讨会支持网络安全教育

• 批准号: 1516730
• 负责人: Richard Weiss
• 金额: $ 24.07万
• 依托单位: Evergreen State College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1516730&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EDURange; Supporting; cyber; security; education

The EDURange project, a collaboration between Evergreen State College and Lewis and Clark College, will support faculty teaching cyber security by providing hands-on exercises, a student-staffed help-desk, and webinars. These resources will be designed to be easy to deploy and will be interactive, competitive and collaborative to ensure student engagement. The availability of these resources will make it easier for computer science faculty with little prior background to teach security across, and will increase the number of schools teaching cyber security concepts. As a result this project will produce more students with the analytical skills required to secure computing assets in the Pacific Northwest and in turn will help to ensure American technical competitiveness in the future. The resources will be linked to the concepts and learning outcomes defined in the IEEE/ACM CS Curricula 2013 report. Support for these resources will be provided by a student-run help desk and a user interface that will allow faculty to modify exercises to fit the content and level of difficulty of their classes. Background material will be provided for students to make the exercises applicable to a variety of computer science classes. These resources will fulfill four important needs: (1) expanding and disseminating technology ? improving exercises using EDURange, a flexible, cloud-based teaching infrastructure, (2) faculty development ? helping them use hands-on security exercises in their classrooms and providing curricular resources, (3) student engagement ? developing their skills, leveraging their talent and knowledge, and mentoring them to become the next generation of teachers and researchers, and (4) education research --investigating the acquisition of analytical skills. Assessment of the resources will focus on four activities: (1) a quantitative evaluation and summary of how often and how widely the resources are used, (2) a qualitative assessment of how well exercises map or express the cyber security knowledge units of CS2013, (3) an assessment of faculty experience using the resources in their courses, and (4) an evaluation of the experience using the resources by security faculty, professionals, and students.

EDURange 项目是长青州立学院与刘易斯和克拉克学院之间的合作项目，将通过提供实践练习、学生服务台和网络研讨会来支持教师教授网络安全。 这些资源将被设计为易于部署，并且具有互动性、竞争性和协作性，以确保学生的参与。 这些资源的可用性将使没有任何背景的计算机科学教师更容易教授安全知识，并将增加教授网络安全概念的学校数量。 因此，该项目将培养更多具备保护西北太平洋地区计算资产所需分析技能的学生，进而有助于确保美国未来的技术竞争力。 这些资源将与 IEEE/ACM CS 课程 2013 报告中定义的概念和学习成果相关联。 对这些资源的支持将由学生运行的服务台和用户界面提供，教师可以通过该用户界面修改练习以适应课程的内容和难度级别。 将为学生提供背景材料，使练习适用于各种计算机科学课程。 这些资源将满足四个重要需求：（1）扩展和传播技术？使用 EDURange（一种灵活的、基于云的教学基础设施）改进练习，(2) 教师发展 ?帮助他们在课堂上进行实践安全练习并提供课程资源，(3) 学生参与度？发展他们的技能，利用他们的才能和知识，并指导他们成为下一代教师和研究人员，以及（4）教育研究——调查分析技能的获得。 资源评估将侧重于四项活动：(1) 对资源使用频率和范围的定量评估和总结，(2) 对练习映射或表达 CS2013 网络安全知识单元的程度进行定性评估， (3) 对教师在课程中使用资源的经验进行评估，以及 (4) 对安全教师、专业人员和学生使用资源的经验进行评估。