Improving Students' Privacy Awareness - Analysis of A Pilot Survey to Design A VR Environment for Self-Paced Learning

Privacy awareness is an important issue in the educating new generations. The increasing use of online services in societies makes this area more relevant than before. It is the task of educational institutions to prepare their students for a safe online life. At our universities, we have decided to focus on this area. Before planning the necessary curriculum, we conducted a survey among university students to find out which areas of this field require more attention in privacy awareness education. In this paper, we present the results of this survey. Multiple-choice questions were used in the questionnaire, where students had to choose between good, most often chosen wrong, and random wrong answers. We found that in many cases the students chose the well-known wrong answers, which means that we have to deal not only with useful information but also with misconceptions in the course material. Based on these results, we designed a VR environment using the results of this survey. This VR environment includes a curriculum on privacy awareness that deal with those fields that students need to study. This environment is designed for self-paced learning as a supplement to university education and developed in a MaxWhere space.