First year students' experience in a Cyber World course – an evaluation

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_C3604796B45A
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Titre
First year students' experience in a Cyber World course – an evaluation
Périodique
Education and Information Technologies
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Breitinger Frank, Tully-Doyle Ryan, Przyborski Kristen, Beck Lauren, Harichandran Ronald S.
ISSN
1360-2357
1573-7608
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
01/2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
26
Numéro
1
Pages
1069-1087
Langue
anglais
Résumé
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.
Mots-clé
Education, Library and Information Sciences
Web of science
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06/05/2021 11:01
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