Competency-mapping module organizing curriculum topics by difficulty, prerequisites, and concept clusters

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Description

The competency-mapping module extracts structured competencies from course materials using a cybersecurity-specific competency schema. The extractor "identifies key entities such as tools, techniques, concepts, attacks, vulnerabilities, and defenses; assigns difficulty levels from Beginner to Expert; and maps instructional relations relevant to gameplay design, including prerequisites, concept clusters, and learning enablers." The resulting competency graph serves as the initialization blueprint for challenge generation, keeping gameplay curriculum-aligned from the outset.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Course materials from which structured competencies are extracted
• A cybersecurity-specific competency schema with difficulty levels and instructional relations

Constraints

• Designed for cybersecurity curriculum materials; the article frames conceptual dependency management as especially important in this domain

Target Learners

• Undergraduate cybersecurity students

Learning Goals

• Curriculum-aligned challenge progression that avoids cognitive overload or fragmented learning

Claims

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Examples

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Key Sources

• Hornung, I., Marasinghe Arachchige, D., Kumarage, T., Agrawal, G., Deng, Y., Chen, Y.-C., & Liu, H. (2026). CyberAGENTS: Structured Autonomy for Agentic Gamified Learning in Cybersecurity. Preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07965. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.07965

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Field	Value
type	design
id	cyberagents-competency-mapping-module
title	Competency-mapping module organizing curriculum topics by difficulty, prerequisites, and concept clusters
description	The competency-mapping module extracts structured competencies from course materials using a cybersecurity-specific competency schema.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-10
trust	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources	1 — hornung-2026

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