Information Security and Cyber Ethics in Education

Course content

The goal of the course is to raise the information security awareness and cyber ethics sensitivity of pre-service teachers. This course addresses several of the major security, ethical and policy issues that are changing the way educators think about new information and communication technologies in a classroom setting. While covering information security and cyber ethics concepts, the course also demonstrate several real life cases. The course will cover but not limited to topics such as safety in social media, netiquette, acceptable use of computing resources, electronic cheating, high-tech hate speech, intellectual property, digital divide, social equity, copyright, and current governmental regulations. During the course from time to time, students will have a chance to hear from a number of information technology experts on above course topics.