[diversity] Best practice - increasing female participation in computer science
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Brian Nisbet
brian.nisbet at heanet.ie
Mon Oct 16 17:11:55 CEST 2017
That's great, Amanda, thanks for sharing! I think the communication concepts of changing the name of the classes and focusing on teamwork & collaboration are really important. Brian Brian Nisbet Network Operations Manager HEAnet CLG, Ireland's National Education and Research Network 1st Floor, 5 George's Dock, IFSC, Dublin D01 X8N7, Ireland +35316609040 brian.nisbet at heanet.ie www.heanet.ie Registered in Ireland, No. 275301. CRA No. 20036270 On 16/10/2017 16:02, Amanda Gowland wrote: > This is a fantasic best practice example of how educational institutions > can make changes to their programmes to be more inclusive to women: > > http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/10/542638758/colleges-have-increased-women-computer-science-majors-what-can-google-learn > > "Klawe — a computer scientist herself — had always been told that girls > weren't good at these things. "This whole idea that women lean to liking > doing one thing and men to doing another, it turns out I think if you do > the curriculum and pedagogy well that's just false," she says." > > "Harvey Mudd's intro computer class became among the school's most > popular. And now, instead of 10 percent in any given year, the number of > women computer science majors ranges between 40 percent and 50 percent." > > > > _______________________________________________ > diversity mailing list > diversity at ripe.net > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/diversity >
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