Pedagogical Approach to Effective Cybersecurity Teaching

Arabo, Abdullahi; Serpell, Martin

Abstract

© 2019, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. Initial research ruled out many factors that were thought may correlate to student academic performance. Finally, a strong correlation was found between their academic performance and their motivation. Following on from this research teaching practice was restructured to improve student motivation, engagement, and interest in cybersecurity by contextualizing teaching material with current real-world scenarios. This restructuring led to a very significant improvement in student academic performance, engagement and interest in cybersecurity. Students were found to attend more of their lectures and practical sessions and that this had a strong positive correlation with their academic performance.

• Acceptance Date: Mar 13, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Apr 27, 2019
• Deposit Date: Mar 21, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 28, 2020
• Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
• Print ISSN: 1867-7207
• Electronic ISSN: 1611-3349
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 11345 LNCS
• Pages: 129-140
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series Number: 11345
• Book Title: Transactions on Edutainment XV
• ISBN: 9783662593509
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59351-6_11
• Keywords: education, cybersecurity, edutainment
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/848004
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-59351-6_11
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Special issue on cybersecurity teaching and learning
• Contract Date: Mar 21, 2018