Prologue
I started to teach in the programme for the Postgraduate Diploma in IT Forensics (PgDITF) in 2009. The HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education (HKUSPACE) offered the programme. HKUSAPCE is an extension of The University of Hong Kong. HKUSPACE .
In July 2019, I told them that I had decided to go back to school as a student again. I told them that they have to look for another teacher.
During all these years, I have distributed the lecture notes of Module 3 and Module 5 under the Creative Commons licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Programme details
The PgDITF is a 1.5-year programme consisting of 8 core modules. Each module includes 30 contact hours and 2 hours of written examination.
Students who have successfully completed PgDITF are eligible to apply for admission to 2 United Kingdom programmes. They are the MSc Electronic Security and Digital Forensics offered by the Middlesex University and the MSc Cyber Security offered by the Manchester Metropolitan. The 2 programmes are run in collaboration with HKUSPACE.
Module 3
Module 3, e-Business Related Legislations and Cyber Crime, consisted of 10-week lectures. The lecture notes are available here. A click causes the download automatically.
Module 5
Module 5, Collecting Digital Evidence and Presentation in Court, consisted of 10-week lectures. The lecture notes are available here.
Epilogue
G. C. Lichtenerg (1742 - 1799):
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
Epictetus (50 - 135):
If you search for the truth, you would not try to win by every method possible; and when you have discovered the truth, you do not need to worry about losing.
Nelson Mandela (1918 - 2013):
Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.
Zhang Guangming, Professor of School of Environment and Nature Resources, Renmin University of China:
What any teacher can teach is far less than Google. I told the students,” I do not have new knowledge to teach you. Rather, I hope to learn from you some new knowledge.” Research is not working for your teachers. It is for developing one’s ability, developing the ability to analyse the problems, propose solutions, obtain resources, solve problems, sum up and promote.