Ajantha Herath

Computer forensics, information security and law: a case study

Providing security and assurance to information systems and communications is one of the highest national priorities. It is our task to prepare computer information system security professionals with current security and assurance information to achieve this objective. To meet this urgent need, the faculty must have the knowledge and skills to be taught in the classroom. For several semesters, we have been developing information system security curriculum with a computer forensics course for the students. Active participation in real life security problems is a great opportunity to learn the subject matter. This paper describes one of our positive experiences.

A Project Based CS/IS-1 Course with an Active Learning Environment

High level programming languages use system defined data types and the user defined data types in computations. We have developed a project-based CS/IS-1 course to substitute the traditional lecture based classroom to help students design and use at least two user defined data types in their computations to solve real world problems. Abstract data types and basic programming constructs are introduced efficiently to the students in an active learning environment using games. To assess and evaluate the changes made we distributed the course module among our students and other instructors. This paper describes our experience in developing the project based active learning environment.