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Chen, Hao; Zhang, Yan; Zhang, Song; Lyu, Tu – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study examines the effect of a gamified information security education system (ISES) on developing users' information security awareness and protection behavioral intention. We developed a research model based on affordance theory and means-end chain theory. Using a scenario-based experimental survey approach, we obtained 220 valid samples…
Descriptors: Intention, Information Security, Computer Security, Correlation
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Alex Cameron; Abu Alam; Madhu Khurana; Jordan Allison; Nasreen Anjum – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
Modern day organizations face a continuous challenge in ensuring that their employees are cognizant with malware and cyber attacks, since it has the potential to cause financial, legal, and reputational damage to them. Current awareness training exists in a multitude of forms to equip employees and organizations to protect themselves against…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Crime Prevention, Information Security, Gamification
Dawn C. Tatum – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Gamification is a term used to describe the art of taking a process or a task and making it into a game. Using games as a way to make mundane tasks or necessary lessons more fun is used in many aspects of life. Parents often use games to teach children tasks, and teachers use games to enforce learning, and much more. The gamification of Security…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Information Security, Computer Security, Behavior Patterns
Lee, Heesuk – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Many organizations are providing employee training to raise security awareness as data breaches increase. Organizational digital transformation has accelerated, especially during the COVID-19 outbreak. It has made the technology industry a prime target for cyberattacks. Although more organizations invest in cybersecurity training, data breaches…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Information Security, Employee Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Kevin McLaughlin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The emerging impact of gamification in the field of education has generated several possible avenues for enhancing learning outcomes and raised a large number of as-yet unanswered questions as to the effectiveness of different gamification techniques in different contexts. This quantitative survey study examines the impact of gamification on…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer Security, Information Security, Game Based Learning
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Moon, Tyler; Abegaz, Tamirat; Payne, Bryson; Salimi, Abi – Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, 2020
Several research findings indicate that basic cyber hygiene can potentially deter the majority of cyber threats. One of the ways cybersecurity professionals can prepare users to ensure proper hygiene is to help them develop their ability to spot the difference between normal and abnormal behavior in a computer system. Malware disrupts the normal…
Descriptors: Information Security, Game Based Learning, Computer Security, Knowledge Level
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Khan, Manzoor Ahmed; Merabet, Adel; Alkaabi, Shamma; El Sayed, Hesham – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Computer security competitions have been playing a significant role in encouraging students to get into cybersecurity, as well as enhancing the cybersecurity education system. The level of difficulty of the computer security tasks could be intimidating for most students and learners, one of the reasons there has been a shortage of cybersecurity…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Information Security, Risk, Outcomes of Education
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2021
For the forty-fourth time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented online and onsite during the annual AECT Convention. Volume 1 contains papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing with…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Feedback (Response), Course Evaluation
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Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the International Conference on e-Learning (EL) 2019, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-organised by the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, in Porto, Portugal, July 17-19, 2019. The EL 2019 conference aims to address the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Cooperation