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Heike Wiesner, Isabel Zorn, Heidi Schelhowe, Barbara Baier, Ida Ebkes
The Ten Most Important Gender Mainstreaming Rules for Creating E-Learning Modules
This article describes the results and outcome of “Gender Mainstreaming medial”, the research project accompanying the “New Media in Education (NMB)” programme of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). Apart from advising, monitoring and evaluating 100 projects funded by the BMBF, one of the purposes of “Gender Mainstreaming medial” was the development of criteria for Gender Mainstreaming (GM) in e-learning modules. These criteria, which have been compiled in the GM-Leitfaden and the GM-Guideline, aim at promoting gender equality within the projects themselves as well as in the online platforms and the embedded learning modules. Moreover, the 100 NMB projects were evaluated according to GM criteria in order to identify Best Practice cases. It turned out, however, that none of the projects met all the GM criteria examined. Yet, some projects managed to implement specific GM strategies successfully in their learning modules. We assembled those aspects and extracted ten central rules which we compiled in a ten-point-roadmap. Each of these rules specifies a central aspect of a gender sensitive conception, composition and design of e-learning modules. Three out of those ten aspects are being illustrated in detail in this article.
i-com, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag
Print ISSN: 1618-162X
Volume: 03, 02/2004
Pages: 050 - 052