IMPROVING DIGITAL SECURITY AND PRIVACY OF STUDENTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION: AN ATTITUDINAL CHANGE FRAMEWORK BASED ON COMPETENCE LEARNING MATRIX

The information revolution is affecting every aspect of society including education resulting in a concept known as digital learning or e-learning. One problem environments and tools the security privacy learners. How to ensure learners remains major challenge leading exposure among naive students. objective study was explore culture students propose novel framework enhance using based on competence theory. Design Science Research (DSR) adopted research paradigm with quantitative qualitative data gathered from implementation framework. 300 college were purposively sampled for study. A WhatsApp message sent student requesting their confidential under pretexting impersonation assess how conscious they were. developed implemented theory learning. results showed high levels vulnerabilities at 67.67% before Implementation Framework Round 1. This vulnerability reduced 1.67% after 2 further 0% 3. paper concluded that lack awareness made them Unconsciously Incompetent (UI). Exposure consciously incompetent (CI), whiles rounds exposures led be competent (CC). will eventually result unconsciously (UC) become resistant immune attacks. implication this that, more converge space, need build immunity resistance against cyber-attacks critical avoid exposure. Learning should consistent routine have renewed behavior changes online attacks.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0697/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>