Technology-enhanced tabletop exercises delivered via IXP across 25 exercises and 743 participants showed increased student engagement and collaboration and clearer instructor visibility.¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? From 2024 to 2026, 25 IXP-supported TTXs with 743 participants were run, and the authors observed increased engagement and collaboration among students and clearer visibility for instructors into team navigation of scenarios. → J. Vykopal 2026

Evidence¶

J. Vykopal 2026¶

J. Vykopal, P. Čeleda, M. Horák, V. Švábenský. (2026). Technology-Enhanced Tabletop Exercises for Cybersecurity Education: Lessons Learned. In Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE '26). https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28179 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.28179

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Innovative practice paper reporting the authors' own delivery of 25 exercises across university courses and extracurricular events, with post-exercise questionnaires and instructor focus groups (8 instructors). The authors "observed increased engagement and collaboration among students"; no effect sizes are printed.

"From 2024 to 2026, we ran 25 exercises with 743 participants in multiple university courses and extracurricular events. We observed increased engagement and collaboration among students, and clearer visibility for instructors into how teams navigate complex scenarios."

Discussion¶

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