Framework for the design of web-based learning for digital forensics labs

Abstract

Digital forensic education and training has been experiencing radical growth in the past ten years. The core of these training and academic programs is to develop a set of suitable hands-on digital forensic labs. To do this we first must familiarize ourselves with the tools of the trade. The main step to training students, who are preparing to be computer forensic professionals, lies in creating a comprehensive hands-on approach to computer forensics. The goal of this project work is to establish a series of hands-on computer forensic labs, which help students prepare to accede seamlessly into the law enforcement workforce and to make these labs available online by exploiting technologies of Web-based learning and future web developments, one of this includes the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web will enable intelligent services by several methods which all work towards making information machine-understandable [3]. With this we hope to develop an intelligent Web-based educational system which is capable of demonstrating some form of knowledge-based reasoning in lab sequencing, in analysis of the student's answers combining with students' background, and in providing interactive problem-solving support to the student, all adapted to the Web technology [3].