مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - TEACHER CANDIDATES’ EXPERIENCES OF CYBER CRIME AND THEIR VIEWS FOR THE INFORMATION SECURITY COURSE CONTENT

Abstract :

AbstractThe purpose of this study is to determine student teachers’ experience of cybercrime and their opinions about what should be the content of information technology security course. The study was conducted with phenomenology model of qualitative research methods. The study group of the study was consisted of student teachers from different teaching programs. In scope of this study semi- structured interviews were carried out. For data analysis, content analysis was conducted on data collected through interviews. According to the results it was identified that some of the student teachers’ are exposed to cybercrimes, some of them have no information about cybercrime and some of them have no knowledge about what they can do when faced with a cybercrime. Besides it was found that many student teachers’ have no sufficient knowledge regarding to the definition and scope of information technology security. Finally, student teachers have expressed that they need to learn some important security topics. The topics are identified as; safe use of information technology, ensuring the security of personal information, taking security precautions against the information technology threats, learning and using security software installation, secure online shopping and internet banking, security of the website, safe use of social networks, generating secure password, protection from viruses, security updates, security of the e-mail account, security of operating systems. From these findings, it is considered that it will be useful to take into account the results of this research in determining the content of the information security training in the future studies.