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@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-...
"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."
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