An Academic Approach to Digital Forensics

This is the accepted manuscript version of the following article: O. Angelopoulou, and S. Vidalis, “An academic approach to digital forensics”, Journal of Information Warfare, Vol. 13(4), 2015. The final published version is available at: https://www.jinfowar.com/journal/volume-13-issue-4/academic-approach-digital-forensics © Copyright 2017 Journal of Information Warfare. All Rights Reserved.Digital forensics as a field of study creates a number of challenges when it comes to the academic environment. The aim of this paper is to explore these challenges in relation to the learning and teaching theories. We discuss our approach and methods of educating digital forensic investigators based on the learning axioms and models, and we also present the learning environments we develop for our scholarsPeer reviewe