wConnect: a facebook-based developmental learning community to support women in information technology
| dc.contributor.author | Rosson, Mary Beth | |
| dc.contributor.author | Carroll, John M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Zhao, Dejin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Paone, Timothy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-15T12:03:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-15T12:03:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The under-representation of women in computer and infor-mation science (CIS) has created a crisis in availability of qualified CIS professionals and diversity of perspectives. Many interventions are being explored but these are primarily institutional programs like curriculum enhancements and mentoring. We describe wConnect, a developmental learning community that leverages social relations and social networking software to support women in CIS. This is a practical issue of some urgency that presents an opportunity for community informatics to impact the CIS profession. We report our progress and lessons learned, so that other organizations can initiate similar outreach activities. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1145/1556460.1556480 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | ACM Press | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Communities and Technologies 2009: Proceedings of the Fourth Communities and Technologies Conference | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Communities and Technologies | |
| dc.title | wConnect: a facebook-based developmental learning community to support women in information technology | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| gi.citation.endPage | 134 | |
| gi.citation.startPage | 125 | |
| gi.citations.count | 6 | |
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| gi.citations.element | Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll, Hansa Sinha (2011): Orientation of Undergraduates Toward Careers in the Computer and Information Sciences, In: ACM Transactions on Computing Education 3(11), doi:10.1145/2037276.2037278 | |
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| gi.citations.element | M B Rosson, E Thiry, Dejin Zhao, J M Carroll (2011): Developing an Online Community for Women in Computer and Information Sciences: A Design Rationale Analysis, In: 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, doi:10.1109/hicss.2011.159 | |
| gi.citations.element | Samia Ibtasam, Lubna Razaq, Haider W. Anwar, Hamid Mehmood, Kushal Shah, Jennifer Webster, Neha Kumar, Richard Anderson (2018): Knowledge, Access, and Decision-Making, In: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, doi:10.1145/3209811.3209819 | |
| gi.citations.element | Mary Beth Rosson, Elizabeth Thiry, Dejin Zhao, John M. Carroll (2011): Teachers as Designers: Enabling Teachers to Specify Dynamic Web Programming Projects for Students, In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21530-8_19 | |
| gi.conference.sessiontitle | Full Papers |