From Bloom's to Psychomotor ...

So when the teaching finishes, the learning begins.

These days, in areas such as Cyber Security, the application of Bloom's Taxonomy in higher education are rapidly fading, and where we are moving away from a cognitive model (knowledge, comprehension, and up to evaluation) towards a psychomotor approach:

Companies often now want graduates who can originate new ideas and solve puzzles, rather than those who can critically evaluate. Along with this, in an area such as Cyber Security, the scope of the things that students must understand increases by the day:

Students will thus end up moving towards the red area, or the blue area, and pick-up skills as they go.

But how can we best support the development of the brightest students? Well, one way is for them to self organise themselves, and let them learn from each other. Also let them work together, while competing, and have fun along the way. So, over the past year or so we've helped support a range of Capture The Flag (CTF) activities:

and:

and have now developed our own. It is, though, our Edinburgh Napier Security Society (ENUSEC>) who are leading the way in organising themselves, and including students from every level. Their are a supportive group, and who also integrate with recent graduates, and who feed back their experience and help.

So over the past month, almost every place I've turned I see the support of ENSEC>. They helped in our open day showing our many applicants the career opportunities in their area:

and at conference events ...

And so I saw their supportive nature yesterday, with their own CTF:

So when the teaching ends, let the learning begin ... and let it be fun.

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