Title: A cloud-based systematic cyber security teaching and learning framework for high school students

Authors: Berioska Contreras Vargas; Seppo Virtanen

Addresses: Department of Electronics, Federico Santa María Technical University, Chile ' Department of Computing, University of Turku, Finland

Abstract: We present a systematic framework to construct cybersecurity knowledge for high school students on cloud computing. The learning outcomes were analysed based on time and completion rates to evaluate a ranking, learning curves, and clusters. The presented cyber security education module consists of a series of adaptive assignments anchored on constructivist and scaffolding learning theories. The probability of success for active guided tasks was 0.80. In the case of constructive adaptive assignments it was 0.75, and for interactive adaptive assignments it was 0.25. The completion rate dropped in the last adaptive assignment, implying the need to reinforce interactions earlier. Students demonstrated that motivation is as much determinant as the background experience, showing noticeable variations in the time needed to complete our adaptive assignments.

Keywords: security; privacy; cybersecurity; penetration testing; teaching and learning; constructivist learning theory; scaffolding learning; active learning; high school; cloud computing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2023.132163

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2023 Vol.16 No.3, pp.316 - 339

Received: 24 Jun 2021
Accepted: 20 Jul 2022
Published online: 12 Jul 2023 *

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