Reinforce Teamwork and Creativity for Cybersecurity in a Classroom Setting: A Team Activity for Building a Strong Cyber Defense using K’Nex®

Can students learn about teamwork, creativity and cybersecurity at the same time? Yes, they can when Management and Organizational Behavior faculty team up with colleagues in Information Technology (IT) and Cybersecurity to implement a game-format as one of their pedagogies. We have adopted this team building activity successfully in a variety of courses for undergraduate and graduate IT and business students. For our undergraduates, we use this team activity to reinforce theoretical material previously covered in lecture format. For our graduate students, we use this approach to introduce students to each other at the beginning of the program in orientation.