TITLE:
Improving General Undergraduate Cyber Security Education: A Responsibility for All Universities?
AUTHORS:
Stephanie M. Redman, Kate J. Yaxley, Keith F. Joiner
KEYWORDS:
Undergraduate General Education, Cyber Security, Reinforcement Laboratory Learning, Curriculum Reform, Contextualisation
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.11 No.12,
December
9,
2020
ABSTRACT: Cyber has evolved in the Information Age to penetrate and threaten all aspects of society. Arguably, undergraduate education needs to prepare graduates for cyber security as it does in communication and logic. Yet, most universities are so far only including cyber security as a new discipline. One university in 2015 made cyber security a general education subject. This research reports that the university’s first major curricular and pedagogicalre-form for the general cyber security subject to be more realisable and appreciated by students. It also exemplifies the importance of well-designed laboratories for student appreciation and understanding within this new field and thus within educational research.