Exploring Cybersecurity Education at the K-12 Level

Authors

Weiru Chen, Old Dominion UniversityFollow
Yuming He, Old Dominion UniversityFollow
Xin Tian
Wu He, Old Dominion UniversityFollow
E. Langran (Ed.)
D. Rutledge (Ed.)

Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2021

Publication Title

Proceedings of SITE Interactive Conference

Pages

108-114

Conference Name

SITE Interactive Conference, October 26-28, 2021, Online

Abstract

K-12 cybersecurity education is receiving growing attention with the growing number of cyberattacks and a shortage of cybersecurity professionals. However, there are many barriers for teachers to implement effective cybersecurity education in formal classroom environments. This study conducts a systematic literature review to examine the current state-of-the-art on K-12 cybersecurity education. Through the systematic literature review, we identified 20 closely relevant papers and recognized that a well-designed curriculum in cybersecurity education at the K-12 level is strongly needed to motivate students to pursue cybersecurity pathways and careers. The challenge and suggestions of curriculum design, teaching strategy, and learning assessment are summarized and discussed.

Comments

Copyright by AACE. Reprinted with permission of AACE (http://www.aace.org)

ORCID

0000-0002-4256-8476 (He, Yuming)

Original Publication Citation

Chen, W., He, Y., Tian, X., & He, W. (2021).Exploring cybersecurity education at the K-12 level. In E. Langran & D. Rutledge (Eds.), Proceedings of SITE Interactive Conference (pp. 108-114). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/220175/.

Repository Citation

Chen, Weiru; He, Yuming; Tian, Xin; He, Wu; Langran, E. (Ed.); and Rutledge, D. (Ed.), "Exploring Cybersecurity Education at the K-12 Level" (2021). Information Technology & Decision Sciences Faculty Publications. 61.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/itds_facpubs/61