Quality Criteria for Cyber Security MOOCs

Simone Fischer-Hübner; Matthias Beckerle; Alberto Lluch Lafuente; Antonio Ruiz Martínez; Karo Saharinen; Antonio Skarmeta; Pierantonia Sterlini

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59291-2_4

Quality Criteria for Cyber Security MOOCs

Simone Fischer-Hübner^*, Matthias Beckerle, Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Antonio Ruiz Martínez, Karo Saharinen, Antonio Skarmeta, Pierantonia Sterlini

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Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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Cyber security MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) can enable lifelong learning and increase the cyber security competence of experts and citizens. This paper contributes with a review of existing cyber security MOOCs and MOOC quality assurance frameworks. It then presents quality criteria, which we elicited for evaluating whether cyber security MOOCs are worthy to be awarded with a quality seal. Finally, an exemplary evaluation of six selected European MOOCs is presented to exercise the quality seal awarding process. Additionally, the evaluation revealed that criteria for assuring privacy, ethics, meeting professional expectations and openness were on average not clearly met.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Security Education. Information Security in Action
Editors	Lynette Drevin, Suné Von Solms, Marianthi Theocharidou
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2020
Pages	46-60
ISBN (Print)	9783030592905
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59291-2_4
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	13^th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education - Virtual event, Maribor, Slovenia Duration: 21 Sept 2020 → 23 Sept 2020

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Conference	13^th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education
Location	Virtual event
Country/Territory	Slovenia
City	Maribor
Period	21/09/2020 → 23/09/2020

Series	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume	579 IFIP
ISSN	1868-4238

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Cyber security
MOOCs
Quality assurance and evaluation
Security education

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Fischer-Hübner, S, Beckerle, M, Lluch Lafuente, A, Ruiz Martínez, A, Saharinen, K, Skarmeta, A & Sterlini, P 2020, Quality Criteria for Cyber Security MOOCs. in L Drevin, S Von Solms & M Theocharidou (eds), Information Security Education. Information Security in Action. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 579 IFIP, pp. 46-60, 13^th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Information Security Education, Maribor, Slovenia, 21/09/2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59291-2_4

Quality Criteria for Cyber Security MOOCs. / Fischer-Hübner, Simone; Beckerle, Matthias; Lluch Lafuente, Alberto et al.
Information Security Education. Information Security in Action. ed. / Lynette Drevin; Suné Von Solms; Marianthi Theocharidou. Springer, 2020. p. 46-60 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 579 IFIP).

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