Abstract
Serious games have been used effectively in many educational domains. Games may be utilized efficiently to attract students to information security track. Learning practical knowledge about information security from a game is more engaging and less time consuming than learning through textbooks. Games that closely emulate real-world systems can improve learning about computer security above and beyond just reading technical documents and textbooks. From this perspective, this paper presents six serious games with various genres for teaching information security courses and evaluate their effectiveness as an efficient teaching tool. The study also determines which game genre is the most suitable for delivering educational contents. The obtained results proved and confirmed the hypothesis that educational games have a positive impact as a pedagogic tool on the educational process. According to users preferences', action/adventure game genre is the most preferred game genre followed by role-play.
Highlights
The sophistication of cyber-attacks and the magnitude of their impact require employment of dedicated skillful professionals with scientific and practical knowledge to protect national security and thwart cybercrimes
We identify the game genre that best serves for each educational module content and more appropriate to Kinesthetic/Activists learning style
Does the difference in game genres have a significant impact on the delivery of the educational contents and related Intended Learning Objectives (ILOs)?
Summary
The sophistication of cyber-attacks and the magnitude of their impact require employment of dedicated skillful professionals with scientific and practical knowledge to protect national security and thwart cybercrimes. Games that share common similarities are grouped into particular genre This classification into genres provides a conceptual framework that could be used for impeding educational knowledge, and developing a deeper understanding of how the design process can be specialized for specific types of games [20]. Role playing games allow players to control imaginary character, or party of characters, while engaged in an adventure, exploring the game world, gathering items, completing quests, and battling enemies. These games usually have a rich back story, often with either a fantasy or a science-fiction theme [25].
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