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ERIC Number: EJ1280983
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jan
Pages: 19
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1360-2357
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First Year Students' Experience in a Cyber World Course -- An Evaluation
Breitinger, Frank; Tully-Doyle, Ryan; Przyborski, Kristen; Beck, Lauren; Harichandran, Ronald S.
Education and Information Technologies, v26 n1 p1069-1087 Jan 2021
Although cybersecurity is a major present concern, it is not a required subject in University. In response, we developed "Cyber World" which introduces students to eight highly important cybersecurity topics (primarily taught by none cybersecurity experts). We embedded it into our critical thinking Common Course (core curriculum) which is a team-taught first-year experience required for all students. Cyber World was first taught in Fall 2018 to a cohort of over 150 students from various majors at the University of New Haven. This article presents the evaluation of our Fall taught course. In detail, we compare the performance of Cyber World students to other Common Course sections that ran in parallel and conclude that despite the higher workload students performed equally well. Furthermore, we assess the students' development throughout the course with respect to their cybersecurity knowledge where our results indicate a significant gain of knowledge. Note, this article also presents the idea and topics of Cyber World; however a detailed explanation has been released previously.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Connecticut (New Haven)
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