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In today’s world, technology is ubiquitous. Today’s children grow up with a lot of technology, such as phones, gaming systems, tablets and computers. Even ‘things’ are connected to the Internet. Such things include door locks, coffee makers, refrigerators, thermostats, and speakers to name a few. There are more Internet of Things devices than there are people worldwide. Connected things have changed lives of people and the world in a lot of positive ways, but they also come with numerous security and privacy issues.
Thus, cybersecurity education has become crucial in providing security awareness, secure behavior and cybersecurity expertise. This paper discusses TWOPD, a novel approach to teaching cybersecurity in a college classroom and evaluates the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
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I thank anonymous reviewers for their feedback and the survey participants for their responses. I also thank Writing Across Curriculum 2019 leaders for their support in creating transparent assignments and faculty fellows for their invaluable feedback.
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Chhetri, C. (2021). TWOPD: A Novel Approach to Teaching an Introductory Cybersecurity Course. In: Choo, KK.R., Morris, T., Peterson, G.L., Imsand, E. (eds) National Cyber Summit (NCS) Research Track 2020. NCS 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1271. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58703-1_6
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