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LISA 07 System Education Workshop

The workshop will cover three main topics: (These topics are tentative.)

Broadening and Scoping Sysadmin Education and Curriculum

• In light of increasing IT outsourcing and with the advent of autonomic computing, what would be the future role of sysadmins and how should our education programs be changed accordingly?

• How do system administration courses work together with other courses?

• How do those courses fit into degree programs?

• How do networking and system administration classes connect?

• How should we provide the IT security management and IT business operational aspects? (presentation: Matt Disney)

• How should we provide "mentoring" and other non-standard methods of education?

• Part of the goal will be to review the SAGE Short Topics booklet on Educating and Training System Administrators http://www.sage.org/pubs/4_educating/ and to continue cross-fertilizing best practices of the colleges and universities that offer system administration courses and programs.

Education vs. Training (Creativity vs. Knowledge)

• SANS training courses and USENIX tutorials have been offering practical knowledge and skills to the practitioners.

• What would be the ideal role of academics in educating system admins, system architects, or security management officers?

• What theoretic components should be covered in system admin education? (i.e., IT design, implementation, and management including security and business operational aspects.)

• What hands-on components should be included in system admin education? (presentation: Matt Disney)

• How can we create components that challenge students to think and design IT systems in a creative way using the latest technology?

Case Study: Examples of Hands-on Components in Academic Education Programs (presentation: Brent Hoon Kang, Gautam Singaraju, Dennis, Jon)

• IT Architect/Defense Olympiad

• Cyber Defense Games as class hands-on exercise components

Resources Page Draft

A very rough starting draft of an "Education Resources" page may be found at SysadminEducationResources.

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