Take part in the Department of Computing’s first ever Game Jam!

31st May 2016, Creative Edge.

We’re looking for 18 students who are interested in games to spend a couple of hours helping us in generating ideas for some educational games.

What is a Game Jam?
A game jam is a gathering of games enthusiasts who come together to discuss, plan, design, and create games within a short period of time.

At the Game Jam we will be discussing:

• What are the most popular games amongst your peers today?
• Why do you think these are popular?
• Which platform (hardware software) do you use?
• Do you play games alone or with someone else?

And also spending some time in groups to generate new games ideas.

Prizes will be on offer for the best concept and all students taking part will get a Game Jam t-shirt as a memento!

To take part email michael.banford@edgehill.ac.uk just expressing your interest. The first 18 students will be picked so don't delay!

Published last month by the Tech Partnership, A new set of National Occupational standards for Information Security has been released, defining the capabilities required for those training to enter and professionals in the information security field.

Working in collaboration with employers from around the UK, the standards provide the foundations for qualifications and training in information security. Looking across levels 3 to 6, the standards cover:

Information Security Governance; Risk Assessment and Management; Secure Development and Security Architecture; Business Resilience; Audit, Compliance and Assurance; Intrusion Detection, Incident Investigation and Management, and Digital Forensic; Secure Operations Management, Vulnerability Assessments, and Identity and Access Management; and Security Testing.

CyberGaTE is pleased to announce the first two Project Assistants have been appointed: Manzi Kagina and Callum Green. Both Manzi and Callum will be working on the cloud, classroom-as-a-service, infrastructure.

The application process for our gamification Project Assistants is ongoing; vacancies for these roles are still open!

Are you studying Games Programming and want to work on CyberGaTE? Apply now, the closing date is 09/05/16.

Edit: The application process is now closed.

As CyberGaTE moves into its second work package, we’ve now released a number of Project Assistant vacancies to work on the gamification of the learning scenarios (the E-Learning Developer) and the virtual classroom-as-a-service infrastructure (the Cloud Infrastructure Assistant).

Edit: The application process is now closed.

To address the growing threat of cyber-attacks across the UK, the Higher Education Academy (HEA) has worked with the Department for Culture, Media and Sports (DCMS) to grant Edge Hill University more than £39,000 to improve cyber security teaching and learning.

Recent global studies indicate that while various universities offer courses related to cyber security, there remains a serious shortage of cyber security professionals to meet the demand of this rapidly growing sector.

Read the full article on the Edge Hill website

Following recent discussions, our intended prototype MOOC is taking a new direction. We’re moving away from turning the TEL versions of our PBLs in MOOC versions and instead using it to explain the knowledge exchange model used on this project to support other academics or institutions develop their own model and scenarios for their own contexts.

This map explores our current thinking on the content of the revised MOOC.

As part of our evaluation, this map explains the relationship between each component of the project and how these eventually achieve the overall aims of the project.

Evaluation strategy concept maps completed 30th January 2015admin The main features of the evaluations strategy for CSKE are: focus questions with an emphasis on impact and future development; use of concept mapping as a device for both data capture and communication; an iterative process which runs throughout the main project (and potentially beyond as it can then be ‘adopted’ by the project team); and evaluation outcomes and outputs which are easy to access and communicate and which are available to the project team for further development after the cessation of project funding.

The evaluation strategy concept map and the first iteration of the CSKE evaluation map have now been released. To read the full evaluation strategy, visit here.

The first round of problem based learning scenarios have now been formulated with our industry partners and are made available through this platform. The scenarios cover a wide range of themes from within cyber security, including: Incident management; software development; information policy and governance in SMEs and others. See all the PBL scenarios…

We are keen to hear from any SME in the North West who would be interested to engage with our knowledge exchange (KE) work. Student KE placements are fully funded and envisage an individual or small team of students working on a given cyber security project during the summer of 2015. Students studying on our MSc Information Security and IT Management will undertake short, flexible placements involving activities to promote cyber security. Placements will be framed around a cyber security need of the business.