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Lessons Learned from Teaching Cybersecurity Courses During Covid-19

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Yan Bai,

Chunming Gao,

Bryan GodaAuthors Info & Claims

SIGITE '20: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education

Pages 308 - 313

https://doi.org/10.1145/3368308.3415394

Published: 07 October 2020 Publication History

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The coronavirus pandemic brings tremendous challenges to teaching cybersecurity courses online, from learning how to use different online teaching platforms to innovative instruction methodologies within two weeks.

In this paper, we will present the lessons we learned in teaching both graduate and undergraduate cybersecurity courses during Covid-19.

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Lessons Learned from Teaching Cybersecurity Courses During Covid-19
1. Security and privacy
  1. Network security
  2. Systems security

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SIGITE '20: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education

October 2020

446 pages

ISBN:9781450370455

DOI:10.1145/3368308

General Chairs:
Deepak Khazanchi
University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
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Harvey Siy,
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George Grispos,
Tenace Kwaku Setor
University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA

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