Fostering women's participation to STEM through MOOCs

Description

In this course, you will :

• Understand and acknowledge the role of gender balance in STEM MOOCs by becoming acquainted with the Gender Balance vocabulary and the main definitions shared at the EU level.
• Compare the experiences of various stakeholders and roles involved in STEM MOOCs by identifying similarities and differences.
• Take a bird's-eye view and consider the impact of gender balance in STEM MOOCs on the achievement of SDG 5.
• Describe and apply the Gender-balance toolkit for STEM MOOC design Recognize the significance of considering gender balance from the start of a new MOOC project and throughout its lifecycle
• Break down and evaluate the checklist's structure in order to use it for your MOOC design activity.
• Analyze and identify the categories that are more applicable to each specific context with which you are dealing.
• Give your design team advice based on the checklist and its categories.
• Determine how to use and adapt the checklist for your specific MOOC production scenario, personalising some of the items as necessary.
• Determine the potential future evolution of this checklist as a means of raising awareness about the larger diversity inclusive scenario.

Syllabus :

• The importance of gender-balance in STEM Field
• The FOSTWOM Toolkit
• The Toolkit: scalability and limits