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Web-based interactive courseware for information security

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Andy Ju An WangAuthors Info & Claims

SIGITE '05: Proceedings of the 6th conference on Information technology education

Pages 199 - 204

https://doi.org/10.1145/1095714.1095760

Published: 20 October 2005 Publication History

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Interactive courseware encourages student participation and active learning. Prior research and teaching experience has shown that IT students prefer to learn information security in a hands-on manner. How do we offer information security as a distance learning course while give students the similar hands-on teaching and learning style as we do in a traditional classroom or lab? This paper discusses our experience in developing Web-based multimedia and interactive courseware for an undergraduate information security course. The courseware is based on a simple yet powerful software tool called MICS (Multimedia and Interactive Courseware Synthesizer), designed for generating multimedia and interactive courseware for science and engineering students. We report in this paper our experience in designing such a course development tool and in using the courseware in our IT curricula.

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