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Building an Information Security Awareness Program
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Building an Information Security Awareness Program

by Bill Gardner, Valerie Thomas
August 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
214 pages
5h 50m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 6

Why Current Programs Don't Work

Bill Gardner    Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA

Abstract

The lecture as a teaching tool is dead. Current programs don't work because we rely on old models of teaching. People learn in different ways. Some people are visual learners, while others learn better from reading or discussing. We need to move away from canned web-delivered training to interactive, hands-on learning to build more effective security awareness programs.

Keywords

Visual

Audio

Hands-on

Training

Learning

Content delivery

Peer-instruction

The Lecture is Dead as a Teaching Tool

No one likes a lecture, except maybe the person giving it. For the lecturer, the act of giving a lecture is an active exercise. For those attending, ...

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