Designing a Creative Cybersecurity Microcredential for Educators: Challenges and Successes of K-12 Teacher Professional Development
Bekir Mugayitoglu, Mike Borowczak, Andrea C. Burrows Borowczak · 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings · 2021
s School of Education in 2016.His research investigated the factors that influence pre-service teachers' attitudes about the importance of computational thinking and methods of teaching computational thinking to prepare students for computer programming.He worked for Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Academy as a content developer of immersive video games for computational thinking, robotics, and STEM-based investigations.Dr. Mugayitoglu has also taught programming languages such as Python, Alice, Scratch, and ROBOTC at the undergraduate level.While working for Robomatter, Inc., an educational robotics company, he developed STEM educational solutions that emphasized computational thinking and age-appropriate programming skills, and conducted professional learning for educators online and face-to-face on how to value and integrate computational thinking practices into classrooms.He is currently a postdoctoral research associate and the project leader of a cybersecurity micro-credential at the University of Wyoming.Dr. Mugayitoglu has more than 16 publications, including peer-reviewed conference papers, conference posters, conference presentations, a journal article, and a book chapter.