Defining the Learning Objectives
After researching network security specialist and technician jobs, a list of
required skills was developed. These skills were prioritized
and the most important and frequently occurring skills became
learning objectives for our course.
Creating the Task Overview
After completing the learning objectives work begins on the tasks that students
will have to perform in the course. These tasks are carefully
chosen to represent tasks that network security specialists
and technicians actually perform on the job.
Around the tasks, a scenario or "story" starts to build. The scenario is carefully chosen as a real life context for
the tasks that students will perform. It also provides continuity
to the tasks throughout the course.
After the Task Overview was completed it was included in a course overview that
was sent out to industry representatives for review. This
process helped confirm the relevance of the learning objectives,
tasks, and scenario.
Creating Detailed Task Descriptions
After industry review of the Task Overview, the writing of the actual tasks were
assigned to individual development team members. Each task
had one original author, a subject matter.
Authors took two weeks to create their detailed Task Description. Team members
then reviewed each other's work and another week was spent
refining the documents.
Task Description documents:
- Review a security policy
- Perform network audit and risk analysis
- Monitor a network and analyze the results
- Respond to a hacker attack
- Educate general users about security policy
- Develop an emergency response plan
