INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CYBERSECURITY TEACHING AND LEARNING BY APPLYING ACTIVITY THEORY AND NARRATIVE RESEARCH

Abstract

Several studies indicate that companies are still facing with severe challenges in recruiting specialists in cybersecurity, for protecting the companies’ systems from cybersecurity attacks. These challenges are caused by the existing gap between knowledge, practical experience, and critical soft skills as developed by the cybersecurity educational programs and trainings and the real needs of the companies. The increase of the effectiveness of teaching and training in developing the students’ skills as required by the companies becomes more and more important. The paper aims to present the challenges of applying the Activity Theory and the narrative research in improving the effectiveness of teaching and learning processes in a master degree program on Cybersecurity, delivered by the university where two of the co-authors are working.