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Intelligently Developed Assessment for Cyber Training

By Milica D. Djekic

The creation of education and training is a quite trickery job requiring a lot of theoretical
as well as practical skills. Right here, we would try to focus on cyber defense courses
being the challenges of a modern education. When you are thinking about developing
the training session in cybersecurity, you should firstly pay attention to your possible
audience and its needs. The question here would be how deep the pre-knowledge of
your audience is and what outcomes your training session could cause. If you get an
opportunity to assess these two parameters, you would easily make a chance to
improve the quality of your course.

So, what we would suggest here is that you should start thinking about pre-course and
post-course assessments that would offer you the clear idea how your audience
responds to your inputs. Also, you could attempt to take a survey and making the
intelligent questions estimate how well the information you have prepared for your
presentation cope with the needs of your audience. The cyber defense courses would
usually include the interactive classes using IT equipment as a way of transferring the
knowledge. If you have in mind any serious cyber defense presentation, training or
course – you should definitely rely on the computers with the internet connection. In
such a case, the trainer should use a projector in order to share his screen with the rest
of the audience. Basically, that’s the situation with the interactive face-to-face courses.
On the other hand, many companies would invest their resources into online training
solutions and then they would let things go automatically in some sense.

Anyhow, the pre-course and post-course assessments would get recommended for a
reason that would offer an opportunity to the presenters to improve their efforts. Also,
those sorts of assessments could get used to grade the knowledge of the participants
before and after the session and indicate how quickly the audience could absorb such
prepared lessons. Finally, the point of this article would be to indicate how important the
intelligently developed assessment within the education and training could be in
increasing the quality of the session itself.

Anyone dealing with the preparation of
the education and training session would
claim that’s not the easy job. Either we
are talking about the classical teaching
lessons or skillfully prepared courses for
some industrial needs – you would
always cope with the same question
which is how well the knowledge you
presented to your audience could deal
with its practical needs. The purpose of
the education is to prepare the young
people for life and their future careers.
Similarly, the role of the business training
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