Cybersecurity in the Digital Classroom: Implications for Emerging Policy, Pedagogy and Practice

Abstract

Recent cybersecurity education literature has focused on developments in cybersecurity curricula, qualifications and accreditation, pedagogy and practice to increase the number of cybersecurity professionals, in both the UK and internationally. There has been little research published to date on the online learning, teaching and assessment environment as a cyber target in its own right. This chapter appraised and discussed the dangers in, and emerging threats to, using online environments. It proposes a set of steps and mitigation measures that can be taken to make it more difficult for cybercriminals to attack educational institutions.

Citation

Irons, A. and Crick, T. (2022), "Cybersecurity in the Digital Classroom: Implications for Emerging Policy, Pedagogy and Practice", Brown, B.A. and Irons, A. (Ed.) The Emerald Handbook of Higher Education in a Post-Covid World: New Approaches and Technologies for Teaching and Learning, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 231-244. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-193-120221011