Virtual laboratory: Facilitating teaching and learning in cybersecurity for students with diverse disciplines

Dennis Y. W. LIU; Alven C. Y. LEUNG; Man Ho AU; Xiapu LUO; Pit Ho Patrio CHIU; Siu Wo Tarloff IM; Wai Man Winnie LAM

doi:10.1109/TALE48000.2019.9225863

Virtual laboratory: Facilitating teaching and learning in cybersecurity for students with diverse disciplines

Dennis Y. W. LIU
, Alven C. Y. LEUNG
, Man Ho AU
, Xiapu LUO
, Pit Ho Patrio CHIU
, Siu Wo Tarloff IM
, Wai Man Winnie LAM

Department of Mathematics and Information Technology (MIT)

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Abstract

Cybersecurity education is a pressing need, when computer systems and mobile devices are ubiquitous and so are the associated threats. However, in the teaching and learning process of cybersecurity, it is challenging when the students are from diverse disciplines with various academic backgrounds. In this project, a number of virtual laboratories are developed to facilitate the teaching and learning process in a cybersecurity course. The aim of the laboratories is to strengthen students' understanding of cybersecurity topics, and to provide students hands-on experience of encountering various security threats. The results of this project indicate that virtual laboratories do facilitate the teaching and learning process in cybersecurity for diverse discipline students. Also, we observed that there is an underestimation of the difficulty of studying cybersecurity by the students due to the general image of cybersecurity in public, which had a negative impact on the student's interest in studying cybersecurity. Copyright © 2019 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2019 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)
Publisher	IEEE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728126654
ISBN (Print)	9781728126661
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE48000.2019.9225863
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 15 Oct 2020

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Cybersecurity education
Virtual laboratory
Experiential learning

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LIU, D. Y. W., LEUNG, A. C. Y., AU, M. H., LUO, X., CHIU, P. H. P., IM, S. W. T., & LAM, W. M. W. (2020). Virtual laboratory: Facilitating teaching and learning in cybersecurity for students with diverse disciplines. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE) Article 9225863 IEEE. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/TALE48000.2019.9225863

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Virtual laboratory: Facilitating teaching and learning in cybersecurity for students with diverse disciplines

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