Confident Men - Successful Women: Gender Differences in Online Learning
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Young, S. & McSporran, M. (2001). Confident Men - Successful Women: Gender Differences in Online Learning. In C. Montgomerie & J. Viteli (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2001 (pp. 2110-2112). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
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World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2001
Norfolk, VA
2001
Craig Montgomerie & Jarmo Viteli
AACE
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This paper describes gender differences in a cohort of undergraduate computing students studying a course that is taught flexibly. We report three years of research using pre- and post- course questionnaires, assessment results and online behaviour of the different demographic groups of students. We consider differences such as online material usage rates, formative and summative assessment completion rates, communication skills, confidence levels, student motivation and learning strategies. The Internet and Web Development course is available as either classroom sessions or as a completely remote online course and students are free to choose how to study and which sessions to attend. The option of online learning has proven to be very popular with the students, particularly those with work and family commitments. We found that our online course favours women and older students, who seem to be more motivated, better at communicating online and at scheduling their learning. In contrast, the male students and younger participants need the discipline that classroom sessions provide - perhaps these students approach the course and it's assessments with over-confidence. The ongoing challenge continues to be encouraging young loner males to succeed with self-paced online study.
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