Improving student learning performance in a virtual hands on lab system in cybersecurity education
This Research Work in Progress paper presents a study on improving student learning performance in a virtual hands on lab system in cybersecurity education. As the demand for cybersecurity trained professionals rapidly increasing, virtual hands on lab systems have been introduced into cybersecurity education as a tool to enhance students' learning. To improve learning in a virtual hands on lab system, instructors need to understand: what learning activities are associated with students' learning performance in this system? What relationship exists between different learning activities? What instructors can do to improve learning outcomes in this system? However, few of these questions has been studied for using virtual hands on lab in cybersecurity education. In this research, we present our recent findings by identifying that two learning activities are positively associated with students' learning performance. Notably, the learning activity of reading lab materials (p 0:01) plays a more significant role in hands on learning than the learning activity of working on lab tasks (p 0:05) in cybersecurity education.In addition, a student, who spends longer time on reading lab materials, may work longer time on lab tasks (p 0:01)
2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)