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eGender: Gill Kirkup: Viewing the elearning landscape through the lens of gender

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Gill Kirkup (Institute of Educational Technology Open University, Milton Keynes):
In Universities we are busy dealing with the impact of elearning tools and pedagogies on our students and our staff and our knowledge domains. We know that elearning can create opportunities; we worry that it also creates barriers. But who benefits and who is disadvantaged is not yet clear. In this new higher education landscape the complexities of gender can be overlooked because our attention is fully occupied with new structures, technologies, practices, markets, and too few resources. Women students, on the other hand, don’t cause us worry; overall they appear to be performing well. However, it is possible to lose the gender equality gains that have been achieved in the last thirty years in the complexities of change. In this lecture I will argue that the new elearning landscape needs to be examined through the lens of gender. I will review what is known about women’s access to, and use of the technologies of elearning, and relate this to what we know about gender and higher education. I will discuss how gender mainstreaming principles can be integrated into good practices in the design and delivery of elearning, to increase the opportunities for all.


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e_gender & e_education lectures

these lectures are a result of the project called delta 3 in 2006/2007.
participants in this project were the academy of fine art in vienna (akademie der bildenden künste) , vienna university of technology (technische uni, wien) and the university of natural resources in vienna (boku wien).

starting point for these lectures are the different dimensions of e-learning, namely:
technology, didactics, design and useability


so you can imagine that this is a rather scientific approach to the topic of e-learning, e-gender and e-education - and also quite callanging, as it employs many different theoretical aspects and brings them together in a spoken statement of 90min .....
unfotunately not all the slides are available online and also the video material shows only the lecturer, so it is even more difficult to keep trak with all this weird assumptions and world constructions and out-of-space realities.

but it is defenitely worth listening and/or looking at these lectures.
so if you have a nerve click on the picture and enjoy!









and here you can find some slide-shows.