Author(s)

Stephanie M. Redman¹, Kate J. Yaxley¹, Keith F. Joiner²

¹School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.
²Capability Systems Centre, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia.

Cyber has evolved in the Information Age to penetrate and threaten all aspects of society. Arguably, undergraduate education needs to prepare graduates for cyber security as it does in communication and logic. Yet, most universities are so far only including cyber security as a new discipline. One university in 2015 made cyber security a general education subject. This research reports that the university’s first major curricular and pedagogical re- form for the general cyber security subject to be more realisable and appreciated by students. It also exemplifies the importance of well-designed laboratories for student appreciation and understanding within this new field and thus within educational research.

Undergraduate General Education, Cyber Security, Reinforcement Laboratory Learning, Curriculum Reform, Contextualisation

Redman, S. , Yaxley, K. and Joiner, K. (2020) Improving General Undergraduate Cyber Security Education: A Responsibility for All Universities?. Creative Education, 11, 2541-2558. doi: 10.4236/ce.2020.1112187.