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Implementation of Active Cybersecurity Education in Ukrainian Higher School

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Information Technology for Education, Science, and Technics (ITEST 2022)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies ((LNDECT,volume 178))

Abstract

Cybersecurity as a part of information technology requires constant professional development for teachers. Therefore it is indicative of the study of the implementation of active learning methods. The experience of higher technical educational institutions in the countries of the European Union (Germany, France, Sweden, etc.) shows that the introduction of active learning elements and Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) methods dramatically increases student engagement and improves their learning outcomes. The article considers the stages of formation of the process of training specialists in cybersecurity. In addition, the experience of introducing active learning methods into the educational process is presented, and its results are analyzed. The technology of implementation of active learning and the results obtained have been presented concerning training professionals of the 2nd (Master’s) degree for the specialty 125 “Cybersecurity” in Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University. These actions are confirmed by the study results of the average score of graduate students, which has increased by three points from 76.3 to 79.3.

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The authors are grateful to EU ENGENSEC Project Manager Anders Carlson from the Chair of Computer Science and Engineering (Department of Technology of Institute of Technology in Blekinge, Karlskrona, Sweden) for the assistance in developing the Master’s Program in Cyber Security [40].

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    Volodymyr Buriachok, Nataliia Korshun, Oleksii Zhyltsov, Volodymyr Sokolov & Pavlo Skladannyi

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  1. Department of Information Security and Computer Engineering, Cherkasy State Technological University, Cherkasy, Ukraine

    Emil Faure

  2. Department of Computer science and Systems Analysis, Cherkasy State Technological University, Cherkasy, Ukraine

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  3. Department of Instrumentation, Mechatronics and Computerized Technologies, Cherkasy State Technological University, Cherkasy, Ukraine

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Buriachok, V., Korshun, N., Zhyltsov, O., Sokolov, V., Skladannyi, P. (2023). Implementation of Active Cybersecurity Education in Ukrainian Higher School. In: Faure, E., Danchenko, O., Bondarenko, M., Tryus, Y., Bazilo, C., Zaspa, G. (eds) Information Technology for Education, Science, and Technics. ITEST 2022. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 178. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35467-0_32

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