Active learning approaches to teaching information assurance

Authors:
Christy Chatmon;Hongmei Chi;Will Davis
Affiliations:
Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL;Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL;Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
Venue:
2010 Information Security Curriculum Development Conference
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper presents several active learning strategies to engage students in Information Assurance (IA) concepts and to enhance their learning experience. Simply listening to a lecture or attending a physical computing laboratory to explore IA concepts for numerous reasons, may not be ideal. Passive involvement of students in their learning process generally leads to a limited retention of knowledge. Students today have excellent visuospatial reasoning skills and the instructional methods chosen should be visual and require active participation. We are exploring several active learning pedagogies in hopes of increasing IA awareness amongst undergraduate computer science majors and non-majors.