ERIC Number: EJ1160532
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Nov
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1055-3096
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Faculty Workshops for Teaching Information Assurance through Hands-On Exercises and Case Studies
Yuan, Xiaohong; Williams, Kenneth; Yu, Huiming; Rorrer, Audrey; Chu, Bei-Tseng; Yang, Li; Winters, Kathy; Kizza, Joseph
Journal of Information Systems Education, v28 n1 p11-19 Nov 2017
Though many Information Assurance (IA) educators agree that hands-on exercises and case studies improve student learning, hands-on exercises and case studies are not widely adopted due to the time needed to develop them and integrate them into curricula. Under the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarship for Service program, we organized two faculty development workshops to disseminate effective hands-on exercises and case studies developed through multiple previous and ongoing grants. To develop faculty expertise in IA, the workshop covered a wide range of IA topics. This paper describes the hands-on exercises and case studies we disseminated through the workshops and reports our experiences of holding the faculty summer workshops. The evaluation results show that workshop participants demonstrated high levels of satisfaction with knowledge and skills gained in both the 2012 and 2013 workshops. Workshop participants also reported use of hands-on lab and case study materials in our follow-up survey and interviews. The workshops provided a valuable opportunity for IA educators to communicate and form collaborations in teaching and research in IA.
Descriptors: Case Studies, Information Security, Teacher Workshops, Teaching Methods, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities, Faculty Development, Training Methods, Participant Satisfaction, Pretests Posttests, Teacher Surveys, Focus Groups, Followup Studies, Knowledge Level, College Faculty, Likert Scales, Program Effectiveness
Journal of Information Systems Education. e-mail: editor@jise.org; Web site: http://www.jise.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Identifiers - Location: Tennessee; North Carolina
Grant or Contract Numbers: DUE1129444; DUE1129355; DUE1129413