The Story Behind This Course

"Market trends defined the motivation for designing this course," Sukhjit Singh, one of the authors of this course, explains. Carnegie Mellon University's innovative Story Centered Curriculum "provides a just-in-time learning environment that transforms individual students into active learners, given that they are immediately involved in tasks and solving problems." Learn More About the Course and Author...

Course Description

In this course, students act as new employees (as enterprise security technicians) in a dynamic, rapidly growing, online real estate auction company called C-Bay. Their jobs, as members of a team of four technicians, is to solve real-life security problems at C-Bay. They are active learners, engaging in hands-on tasks such as analyzing C-Bay's security policy, assessing network problems, monitoring a network, responding to network attacks, educating users, and developing emergency response. Read More...

Advisories and Notices

Sofia is not a credit or degree granting program. This content is freely available as an educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners.

• No instructor or moderator is present.
• May be taken for credit online from Foothill or De Anza College.

Please treat this learning space with respect. It is a global classroom.

An Instructional Guide is available for faculty who would like to adapt the course materials. For additional information, please contact Experiential Learning Center Project Director, Catherine Ayers, AyersCatherine@fhda.edu, at De Anza College.

In addition to the support from NSF and the leadership of Foothill-De Anza, other major project partners include Socratic Arts and Carnegie Mellon University-West.

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