Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community

We describe our work on seeding and building a developmental learning community for recruiting and retaining women in educational programs and careers related to computing and information science (CIS). Our approach is explicitly participatory: we work with young women to better understand how they view and approach CIS and to build activities that may attract women who would otherwise be disinclined toward computing. In this paper we focus primarily on the software tools aspects of this research project..

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICALT
• Authors: Mary Beth Rosson, Hansa Sinha, Dejin Zhao, John M. Carroll, Craig H. Ganoe, Jan Mahar
• Keywords: Developmental Learning Community, ICALT 2008, Machine Learning, Software Tools Aspects, Young Women