Design and Evaluation of an Online Professional Development for an Afterschool Cryptology and Cybersecurity Curriculum.

• In Event: TED- Design and Evaluation of an Online Professional Development for an Afterschool Cryptology and Cybersecurity Curriculum

Short Description

This proposal describes the design and evaluation of a content heavy STEM online professional development (OPD) designed to teach afterschool educators to implement a cryptology and cybersecurity curriculum. Our presentation will describe how our OPD was designed to incorporate best practices, and will report on the data we collected to evaluate the OPD at all four levels of Bouffard & Little’s (2004) framework for evaluating PD for out of school time professionals.

Authors

• Presenter: Christine Wusylko, University of Florida

• Presenter: Zhen Xu, University of Florida

• Contributor: Kara Dawson, University of Florida

• Presenter: Pavlo Antonenko, University of Florida

• Contributor: Do Hyong Koh, University of Florida

• Contributor: Amber Benedict, Arizona State University

• Contributor: Swarup Bhunia, University of Florida