Assessment Of Two Pedagogical Tools For Cybersecurity Education

Cybersecurity is an important strategic areas of computer science, and a difficult discipline to teach effectively. To enhance and provide effective teaching and meaningful learning, we develop and assess two pedagogical tools: Peer instruction, and Concept Maps. Peer instruction teaching methodology has shown promising results in core computer science courses by reducing failure rates and improving student retention in computer science major. Concept maps are well-known technique for improving student-learning experience in class. This thesis document presents the results of implementing and evaluating the peer instruction in a semester-long cybersecurity course, i.e., introduction to computer security. Development and evaluation of concept maps for two cybersecurity courses: SCADA security systems, and digital forensics. We assess the quality of the concept maps using two well-defined techniques: Waterloo rubric, and topological scoring. Results clearly shows that overall concept maps are of high-quality and there is significant improvement in student learning gain during group-discussion

Educational Crisis in the Modern Information and Digital Society Against the Backdrop of Russian Armed Aggression

The educational space is being integrated into the information and digital format of social activity. Sociocultural processes and events determine the intensity of the involvement of scientific and technological progress in the educational environment. The last three years have been a real crisis for Ukrainian education. COVID-19 pandemic and Russian armed aggression actually transferred organizational and training elements of the educational system into online mode. This caused the actualization of all manifestations of digitalization in Ukrainian education. Therefore, the purpose of scientific intelligence is to analyze the information and technological factors that respond to the crisis phenomena in modern education. The article aims to highlight the practical digital resources that have become in demand in the preservation of the functioning of the education system in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The most appropriate methodology capable of analyzing the problems and risks in the digital cluster of education associated with military actions is a systemic, structural-functional, and comparative analysis. Thus, the educational crisis in Ukraine was an obvious consequence of Russian armed aggression. The information and digital educational environment play an important stabilizing role, allowing to maintain the functioning of this sphere of public activity. Digitalization has introduced innovative manifestations in the administrative and organizational, educational and methodological, and information and communication clusters of education. At the same time, the processes of digitalization have also come under attack by the aggressor and faced the risks caused by gross violations of rights in educational cyberspace