An Innovative Teaching Approach for Information Security: Improving Students' Practical and High-Level Skills by Using Ubiquitous Learning and Competition: Enhancing Students' Information Security Skills through Ubiquitous Learning and Competition

Traditional information security teaching faces several challenges, including time and space limitations, restricted participation, outdated experiment designs, limited process monitoring, and capacity limitations for conducting experiments. This paper proposes an innovative information security ubiquitous teaching approach based on the competition mechanism, aiming to address the issues associated with traditional information security teaching methods and to stimulate students' interest and initiative in learning. A ubiquitous teaching platform is designed to engage students in self-learning and experimentation in their fragmented time, while teachers can communicate and interact with students more flexibly and comprehensively, promoting a transformation of the teaching mode. In our teaching method, information security experiments are constructed with a competition mechanism that allows students to compete for points and rankings, thereby stimulating their competitiveness and innovative thinking. The implementation of the competition mechanism-based information security experiments consists of three parts: competition management, scenario simulation, and competition display.