SaTC-EDU: EAGER: Peer Instruction for Cybersecurity Education

SaTC-EDU：EAGER：网络安全教育同行指导

• 批准号: 1901733
• 负责人: Irfan Ahmed
• 金额: $ 4.38万
• 依托单位: Virginia Commonwealth University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-11 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1901733&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SaTC; EDU; EAGER; Peer; Instruction

Engineering a secure IT system, in addition to technical skills, requires a particular mindset focused on using cybersecurity solutions effectively against sophisticated and stealthy cyber attacks. The traditional lecture-centric style of teaching has failed to deliver that mindset, which is the direct result of an over-emphasis on specific technical skills (with limited lifespan and insufficient technical depth), abstract rather than deeply technical examination of fundamental concepts, and an impatience in developing broader analytical skills. The vast majority of cybersecurity failures are the result of poor understanding of the security landscape and an inability to adapt to new threats. Peer instruction may be a solution to this challenge. This project evaluates the effectiveness of peer instruction methodology for cybersecurity education, and develops the peer instruction material for three cybersecurity courses offering an introduction to security concepts, a defensive view of cybersecurity, and an offensive view of cybersecurity. The two primary mechanisms are used for measuring impact of peer instruction, which are pre- and post-testing, and isomorphic questions.

除了技术技能外，还需要特定的思维方式，以有效地使用网络安全解决方案来有效地针对复杂和隐形的网络攻击，这是一种安全的IT系统。以讲座为中心的教学风格未能实现这种心态，这是对特定技术技能（寿命有限和技术深度不足）的过度强调的直接结果，抽象而不是对基本概念的技术研究以及发展更广泛的分析技能的不耐烦。绝大多数网络安全失败是对安全景观的了解不足和无法适应新威胁的结果。同行指导可能是解决这一挑战的方法。该项目评估了同伴教学方法对网络安全教育的有效性，并为三个网络安全课程提供了同伴教学材料，提供了安全概念介绍，对网络安全的防御视图以及网络安全的进攻观点。这两种主要机制用于衡量测试前后的同伴指导的影响，以及同构问题。