Teaching effective Cybersecurity through escape the classroom paradigm.

Cybersecurity has become ubiquitous with the exponential growth of consumer applications and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It is a discipline which intersects other important industries such as energy, manufacturing, and healthcare. Cybersecurity curriculum has traditionally been taught through a mixture of technical-track and non-technical-track (policy, legal and ethical) related courses. In this paper, we chronicle our Division’s efforts to gamify the technical-track curriculum through the Escape the Classroom (ETC) paradigm. The aim of the curriculum gamification is to provide students a fun, interesting, and rewarding experience while learning Cybersecurity through the appropriate Bloom taxonomy levels. The paper discusses our approach and highlights challenges that our faculty encountered while applying ETC towards the Cybersecurity curriculum.