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Summary
Overview
This course is for educators from middle, high school or community college who want to do one
or more of the following:
Course topics
The course will cover and provide educators with everything they need to provide a broad
introduction to cyber security for their students. Security will be taught in the context of social
networking and mobile phones contexts that students and teachers can easily relate with.
Specific topics
a. Need for cyber security understanding the security and privacy issues and threats to
infrastructure;
b. Diversity of careers why cyber security expertise is not limited to only IT professionals:
guest lectures from law enforcement, government and industry;
c. Curriculum resources on cyber security education: How existing resources can be easily
incorporated for students to self-study
Course material examples: Radfords K-12 curriculum and modules
Lab resources available (Examples: Deterlab, EMULab etc)
d. Setting up a lab to conduct cyber security experiments.
e. Basics concepts of cyber security introduced around the context of social networking and
mobile phones
i. Security goals
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Assessment Measures
Assessment will be through projects, short reports and/or discussions. Examples include:
To register for the course students must register as non-degree seeking graduate
students at Radford University. Application form here:
https://www.applyweb.com/radg/index.ftl.
o There
is
a
fee
of
$50
for
application
that
must
be
paid
upfront.
o A
stipend
of
$450
will
be
applied
to
a
limited
number
of
educators
(about
15
on
a
first
applied
basis.
The
amount
will
be
credited
to
your
account
once
you
are
registered
as
a
student.
This
will
cover
the
fees
for
1
credit
($355).
The
rest
$95
will
be
sent
to
your
address
as
a
stipend.