Abstract
Game based learning is a new game play mechanism that the players explore various aspects of game play in a learning context designed by the instructor or the game designer. Nevertheless, general acceptance of game based learning as a new learning paradigm was deferred by a lack of well-controlled, large sample efficacy studies. To address the increasing need of cybersecurity workforce, this paper introduces a game based learning method for high school cybersecurity education. Purdue University Northwest launched GenCyber high school summer camps to about 200 high school students in Chicago metropolitan area. The survey conducted after the summer camp indicated that the game based learning for cybersecurity education was very effective in cybersecurity awareness training. Further analysis of survey data revealed that there is a gender difference in raising students’ interests in cybersecurity and computer science education using game based learning method.
Highlights
National infrastructure, corporations, and agencies have fallen victims to cyber-attacks, and millions of sensitive data records have been compromised, especially in financial and healthcare sectors [1], [2]
During the 1-week summer camp, each student participated in activities mentored by a team of Purdue University Northwest (PNW) faculty members and student assistants
This paper describes evaluation results of game based learning for high school cybersecurity education
Summary
Corporations, and agencies have fallen victims to cyber-attacks, and millions of sensitive data records have been compromised, especially in financial and healthcare sectors [1], [2]. Such security breaches result in substantial financial losses, and greatly hurt the confidence of customers, business partners and stakeholders [3]. The increasing demand for cybersecurity professionals from both government and private sectors makes it a critical mission for higher education institutions to attract and train generation of cybersecurity workforce and citizenry who are capable of advancing national economic prosperity and security
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