Faculty Perceptions of Open Educational Resources in Cyber Curriculum: A Pilot Study

The cyber landscape is growing and evolving at a fast pace. Public and private industries need qualified applicants to protect and defend information systems that drive the digital economy. Currently, there are not enough candidates in the pipeline to fill this need in the workforce. The digital economy is still growing, thus presenting an even greater need for skilled workers in the future. The lack of a strong workforce in cybersecurity presents many challenges to safeguarding U.S. national security and citizens across the world. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation defines Open Educational Resources (OER) as teaching, learning, and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation, and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions. OERs weaken barriers to learning by reducing costs, increasing access, and allowing adaptability of educational materials to meet the needs of an instructor in their field. In this study, the research aims to study cyber faculty members from higher educational institutions in the United States to determine their perceptions of using OER for cyberlearning. A survey instrument from the Babson Survey Research Group was adopted and adapted by the researcher for use in statistical analysis. Individuals from cyber professional organizations, an academic conference, and professional development opportunities in the Summer of 2019 completed the survey to help build the sample for data analysis. The research questions in the study aim to look for statistically significant differences in perceptions of cyber faculty by looking at their years of experience and the number of specialty roles faculty fill in their cyber endeavors. Further understanding of the perceptions of OER by cyber faculty will help understand the roles these educational tools play in tackling the challenges that exist in the cyber landscape

Crafting a national cyberdefense, and preparing to support computational literacy

The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3048379John Arquilla considers how we should interpret the alleged Russian cyberattack on the U.S. Presidential election; Mark Guzdial describes the potential benefits of a 'computing lab'

UMSL Bulletin 2021-2022

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UMSL Bulletin 2022-2023

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UMSL Bulletin 2023-2024

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User Awareness and Knowledge of Cybersecurity and the Impact of training in the Commonwealth of Dominica

The frequency of cyberattacks against governments has increased at an alarming rate and the lack of user awareness and knowledge of cybersecurity has been considered a contributing factor to the increase in cyberattacks and cyberthreats. The purpose of this quantitative experimental study was to explore the role and effectiveness of employee training focused on user awareness of cyberattacks and cybersecurity, with the intent to close the gap in understanding about the level of awareness of cybersecurity within the public sector of the Commonwealth of Dominica. The theoretical framework was Bandura’s social cognitive theory, following the idea that learning occurs in a social context with a reciprocal interaction of the person, environment, and behavior. Data were collected using a questionnaire modified to collect demographic information for a pretest and a posttest analysis. Data analysis using a t test and multiple linear regression was conducted to test the hypotheses related to factors affecting user awareness and knowledge of cybersecurity. Results indicated that participants who were part of the experimental group showed higher knowledge of cybersecurity after the posttest and that demographic factors were not significant predictors of cybersecurity awareness and knowledge. The findings may be used to empower employees with knowledge of cybersecurity and increase awareness within the public sector, and to protect the information systems from cybersecurity threats. The findings may lead to positive social change by encouraging other stakeholders to discuss how risks associated with cybersecurity can be mitigated to enhance service effectiveness

2017, UMaine News Press Releases

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Information technology and military performance

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-544).Militaries have long been eager to adopt the latest technology (IT) in a quest to improve knowledge of and control over the battlefield. At the same time, uncertainty and confusion have remained prominent in actual experience of war. IT usage sometimes improves knowledge, but it sometimes contributes to tactical blunders and misplaced hubris. As militaries invest intensively in IT, they also tend to develop larger headquarters staffs, depend more heavily on planning and intelligence, and employ a larger percentage of personnel in knowledge work rather than physical combat. Both optimists and pessimists about the so-called "revolution in military affairs" have tended to overlook the ways in which IT is profoundly and ambiguously embedded in everyday organizational life. Technocrats embrace IT to "lift the fog of war," but IT often becomes a source of breakdowns, misperception, and politicization. To describe the conditions under which IT usage improves or degrades organizational performance, this dissertation develops the notion of information friction, an aggregate measure of the intensity of organizational struggle to coordinate IT with the operational environment. It articulates hypotheses about how the structure of the external battlefield, internal bureaucratic politics, and patterns of human-computer interaction can either exacerbate or relieve friction, which thus degrades or improves performance. Technological determinism alone cannot account for the increasing complexity and variable performances of information phenomena. Information friction theory is empirically grounded in a participant-observation study of U.S. special operations in Iraq from 2007 to 2008. To test the external validity of insights gained through fieldwork in Iraq, an historical study of the 1940 Battle of Britain examines IT usage in a totally different structural, organizational, and technological context.(cont.) These paired cases show that high information friction, and thus degraded performance, can arise with sophisticated IT, while lower friction and impressive performance can occur with far less sophisticated networks. The social context, not just the quality of technology, makes all the difference. Many shorter examples from recent military history are included to illustrate concepts. This project should be of broad interest to students of organizational knowledge, IT, and military effectiveness.by Jon Randall Lindsay.Ph.D