Call for Educator Presentations - SECeduCon5

Cyber Security Education Australia (CySEA) is a growing consortium of Australian Universities to share best teaching practices and improve cyber security education. CySEA is hosting SECeduCon5, the fifth edition of the national cyber security education conference focussed on students, academics, and impactful teaching. The 2025 conference is at UNSW Sydney on June 26.

SECeduCon5 brings together students (former editions have been attended by hundreds of students), leading educators (panels of academics specialising in cyber security education) and industry (leading CISOs, graduate employers, and experts) for a day focused on Cyber Security Education. This call is for the Educators' Session.

Session Goal:


To establish a national community of security educators.  Attendees will have the opportunity to meet and join the national community of fellow educators, share their teaching innovations and questions, discover best practice, be inspired by new ideas to use in their own teaching, get help on their teaching challenges, and potentially identify future larger scale multi-campus teaching projects that CySEA members could work on together to benefit from economies of scale and peer support.

Call for Participants and presenters:

We invite cybersecurity educators to submit a brief (1 page) description of a teaching innovation, activity or assessment that helps students (by for example, teaching a core concept in a creative and effective way, curriculum innovations that help inspire students or make them better prepared to be security professionals, improving student engagement, improving diversity, developing mindset and professional skills, or indeed anything that enhances student learning).

There is no strict submission format, but the following template could be used for submitting ideas.

Further Information

Free registration will be provided for presenters.  There may be limited travel scholarship support for presenters without institutional support.

Face to face attendance is strongly recommended.  As the highlight of past conferences has been getting to know and connect fellow educators from around the nation.  As an experiment this year we hope to also provide online streaming of the Educators’ session (subject to the inevitable presentation technology risks :) 

We expect to follow this up with hybrid local+online meetings during the year for interested participants to form collegial cross-university interactions.

Submissions

Submission due by 5pm on 1st June 2025.  1 page maximum using the template below.

Submissions will be reviewed for presentation at the conference. CySEA is also hoping to run future events (local or online) for additional presentations.

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Template for Describing a Teaching Activity / Learning Intervention

 Describe an idea or innovation for teaching cybersecurity (activity, assessment, etc)

  1    Goal: 

Identify the challenge (of learning and teaching) that your proposal addresses. e.g. to address a learning problem in previous classes, scaling for large cohort teaching, to teach an important concept that students misunderstood, to improve engagement, support a diverse range of students, ...

 2    Situation: 

Optional: Add any background information you might like to provide about the class or about your theories or hypotheses leading you to your idea or innovation.

3    Describe the activity or assessment or other innovation:

What did you do?  
What happened?

 4    Measure:

How did/will you evaluate the effectiveness of this idea?
What was the impact of the idea on students?

5    What did you learn from this and next steps? 

  • Successes, Challenges, Limitations, What next?  

  • How will you improve this activity for future classes? 

  • Are you looking for specific types of  feedback / support for this idea?

  • How might you disseminate your findings for others to use?

  • What impact could this idea have?

Further information:

Here you can provide links to your teaching materials and any other material about this activity. (Don’t include examples of student work unless you have permission to do so).

Some inspiration?  

Example of repository of support materials

https://github.com/CADS-WSSU (https://github.com/CADS-WSSU)

AI for educators

canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/63765 (http://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/63765) 

Nifty Assignments

http://nifty.stanford.edu/ (http://nifty.stanford.edu/)

Harvard Embedded Ethics

https://embeddedethics.seas.harvard.edu/ (https://embeddedethics.seas.harvard.edu/)