Assignment Understanding Research

Running head: UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH
Understanding Research
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Hartley, R., Medlin, D., & Houlik, Z. (2017). Ethical Hacking: Educating Future
Cybersecurity Professionals. In Proceedings of the EDSIG Conference ISSN (Vol. 2473, p.
3857). http://proc.iscap.info/2017/pdf/4341.pdf
21st century is an era of digitalization and it is for this reason that educational fields are
also trying to use technology as one of the major steps that would be helping them towards this
aspect. As technology is developing at a very rapid rate there is also an increasing chance of
hacking. Students who are using technological tools for making the learning process much easier
for them must also be made aware of the chances of hacking (Chung et al., 2016). This is
because as technology is growing the uses have to be made aware of the disadvantages that can
come up along with the large scale development. To be able to recognize and also fight with all
these diseases the students must be taught about ethical hacking (Halder, 2020). This is a course
through which they will be able to understand how some outsiders or unknown sources may try
to disrupt the security and the privacy aspects of the schools, the teaching professionals and also
other places like any organization (Shapiro & Stefkovich, 2016).
Many students or teaching professionals feel that ethical hacking is the only means to
develop a proper security plan. To do this, they must be having the provision for some kinds of
vulnerability assessments as well. This will be helping in making the monitoring works much
easier. As per the opinion of Hartley, Medlin, and Houlik (2017), there are many hacking
groups or online groups that try to pose major dangers to students who are using online platforms
for studying. Therefore these notorious groups will always try to hack and get hold of the
personal information of students like the family information and also their health record. This
information will, later on, be used for serving as a weapon to threaten the students and also their
families (Kaplin et al., 2019).

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Students who arguing for computer applications engineering in their future studies must be
taught about the risk of hacking right from their young stage so that they can develop some kinds
of soft skills like social engineering, a proper understanding of security, and a knowledge of an
attacker's method of thinking to be successful in the field.
Pareek, A. (2016). APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGIES IN CONTEXT OF SOCIAL
SCIENCE & MEDIA IN FUTURE EDUCATION: PROS & CONS. International Journal
of Humanities & Social Science: Insights & Transformations [ISSN: 2581-3587
(online)], 1(1). http://www.art.eurekajournals.com/index.php/IJHSSIT/article/view/13
Digital platforms are being used in many different areas including education. However, it
is the duty or the responsibility of teachers to ensure that that are teaching the students about the
advantage and the disadvantages that also come along with the digitalized platforms. Technology
is education cokes with risks like lack of social interaction, unequal access, malpractice and
others which must be dealt with proper awareness campaigns. Cloud computing is one of the
most useful inventions of technology that is being used in the modern-day educational system
(Bargagliotti, Herreiner & Phillips, 2018). Students often opt for distance learning if they are
unable to attain college or school due to some issues. Cloud computing is a modern technology
platform that enables students to be a part of the leaning systems right from their home (Ong,
Smith & Ko, 2018). This is because cloud computing acts as a bridge between teachers and
students.
They will be able to get updates about classes' and also about their examinations and
grades whenever they are in need. Online social networking is also very useful because this helps

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students in getting a social connection with each other; however, the problem is that not all
students are well versed with the handling of social media. Moreover, they might also not be
having a stable financial position to get technological platforms. Therefore this gap is widening
and the Government must take some steps to solve this issue or bridge the gap (Pareek, 2016).
The other issue is that students might get addicted to online social networking surfing like
excessive usage of Facebook, Twitter, and others. If not checked at the right time, they will
deflect from studying and will take undue advantage of the technological platforms. The verbal
communication ability of learners will get affected by teachers are not collaborating the oral
presentation tools along with the SMART learning framework (Chung et al., 2016).
Future research works must be carried on in the field of how to bridge the gap between a student
who cannot afford the technologies and the ones who can. Apart from this, making student aware
of the malpractices of the technological devices is also in the stage of infancy and have to be
developed.
Gitelman, L. D., Kozhevnikov, M. V., & Sandler, D. G. (2017). Technology platforms as a
tool for solving complex innovation problems. Complex Systems: Theory and Applications,
102. https://www.witpress.com/Secure/ejournals/papers/DNE110410f.pdf
The educational field has become highly dynamic in the modern-day scenario. This is
because of the rapidly advancing industrial sector. Students often carry on with their old and
traditional habits of studying (Gitelman, Kozhevnikov & Sandler, 2017). However, this makes
them suffer from monotony and also they do not get the impetus from their teachers to go for the
smart digitalized platform tools. To solve these issues, Universities have to adopt the age of
digitalized platforms of study to give the needed support to their students.