Design recommendations for online cybersecurity courses

Nowadays, a significant amount of free online cybersecurity training courses are offered. When preparing further courses, the designer has to decide what to teach and how to do it. In this paper, we provide with a set of recommendations for both issues. Concerning topic selection, 35 free online cou...

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Published in:Computers & security 2019-01, Vol.80, p.238-256
Main Authors: González-Manzano, Lorena, de Fuentes, Jose M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
CAI
Computer assisted instruction
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity course guidance
Cybersecurity distance education and telelearning
Cybersecurity teaching/learning strategies
Design
Distance learning
Media in cybersecurity education
NICE framework
Online instruction
Studies
Technology education
Training
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Summary:Nowadays, a significant amount of free online cybersecurity training courses are offered. When preparing further courses, the designer has to decide what to teach and how to do it. In this paper, we provide with a set of recommendations for both issues. Concerning topic selection, 35 free online courses are analysed using NIST’s NICE reference framework. Thus, several training gaps are discovered. Concerning the way of preparing the course (or refining it after the first edition), a set of good practices is proposed based on students’ performance and commitment in a cybersecurity MOOC with +2,000 initially active students. To foster further research in this area, an open-source framework is released to enable the analysis of students’ performance in EdX MOOCs.
ISSN:0167-4048
1872-6208
DOI:10.1016/j.cose.2018.09.009