This course was unique in several ways:
- The focus was on managing information security in organizations, so we covered the technologies but just enough to know how to apply them for managerial goals and we covered issues that do affect personal/consumer security but organizations were our context.
- The classes were delivered in a hybrid mode with students allowed to attend any given session in the physical classroom or remotely, via Elluminate, a web-based video-conferencing tool designed for learning. Typically about half of class showed up in the room - some came every time while others alternated between classroom and remote attendance. In the room, students were still participating through the Elluminate platform.
- The pedagogy was a learner-centric, collaborative approach in which students were assigned to teams, each of which was responsible for teaching a section of each chapter to the rest of the class. As the instructor, I coached the teams outside class (via Elluminate) on how to convey their teaching points and I helped out during class as needed to ensure accuracy and effectiveness. I'm convinced this had a tremendous impact on student engagement and learning and my student evaluations were the highest I'd ever collected in my nearly 30 years of teaching.
Not sure when we'll be able to offer the course again but as soon as I know I will post it to the blog - earliest next chance would be Fall 2011.
In the meantime, you can access recordings of many of the class meetings from Fall 2008, the last time I taught it. Just to to the Elluminate hosted SJSU recordings page, navigate the calendar to a fall month of 2008, like September, and search on "118c". Alternatively, you can click on specif days of the calendar and scan for the 118c recordings. The class schedule at the back of the syllabus will show you the specific days we met but note that some of those may be exams dates when we used Elluminate just to monitor the exam or days when I forgot to record, etc. so a few may be missing or not worth watching.
You'll need a password to access the recordings but I'm happy to share them with SJSU students and alumni. (Just email me from your SJSU email account.) I'd rather not open them up completely to everyone in the world just yet.
