This free course, Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online, will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how...
Type of Material:
Website
Recommended Uses:
Self-paced; Individualized learning; Can be used as support resource for a formal course
Technical Requirements:
Bassic knowledge of computer security
Identify Major Learning Goals:
After the course, the learners are expected to understand online security personally and in the work place, by learning how to recognise the threats and the steps you can take to reduce the chances that they will happen to you.
With cyber security often in the news today, the course will also frame your online safety in the context of the wider world, introducing you to different types of malware, including viruses and trojans, as well as concepts such as network security, cryptography, identity theft and risk management.
Target Student Population:
Undergraduate, professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
As mentioned in the introductory page, the course does not assume any prior knowledge of computer security. However, to understand the security of the digital information, the understand of the usage of Internet and other web technology is useful; otherwise, the learning curve is quite steep.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
The content is quite comprehensive as a complete course, particular for non-expects. In particular, the Threatsaurus gives the A-Z on the terms in data security threat and it covers most of important terms in the area.
Not starting with some difficulty terms in computer security and theoreies, the learners will find it easy to start with. Further, it also introduced IP networks, so that learners can also acquire the related background security threat in the network.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
The content includes videos, figures and texts. It is good that figures have some "Long description" to elaborate the meaning, but it would be better to show it in the page instead of jumping to another page currently.
The interactivities mainly come from some short activities, which are contains some open-ended questions and further readings, and some surverys in multiple choice, but as seen from survery in Week 1, the use of radio buttos and check boxes are a bit confusing in the web froms.
The goals are well-articulated and supporting content is well presented.
Multiple modes of delivery are supported beyond video lectures and web pages (PDF, MP3, Kindle, EPub, etc.).
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
Videos in the content is quite appearing. However, some are not too smooth in playing, and for some videos, such as 1 Online, the new frontline, there are no narration at all, so viewers may find it taking time to relate it to the content.
Course interaction is straightforward; no sign-up data collection required; multiple media alternatives appropriate to different types of users and different learning styles.
Concerns:
While the content in Threatsaurus is very rich, it would be better if the learning page can link to a particular related term, instead of downloading the whole file.
Sometimes, the materials may look a bit too wordy and the text font size is a bit too small.
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