Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community

Rosson, Mary Beth; Sinha, Hansa; Zhao, Dazun; Carroll, John M.; Ganoe, Craig H.; Mahar, Jan

doi:10.1109/icalt.2008.296

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“…Through a series of focus groups with teenage girls we discovered that simple data-oriented websites might be a promising problem domain for the high school workshops [9]. We decided to build these activities with Bridgetools, our lab's open source tool set (bridgetools.sourceforge.net).…”

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“…Many factors affect their lack of interest, including negative stereotypes of programmers (e.g., as nerds), the competitive culture of programming classes, and little encouragement for young women to enter into computing as a career [1,3]. In our wConnect project, we are studying the role of developmental learning communities as an approach to counteracting this trend [8,9]. We are investigating how women at different phases of involvement with education and careers in computer and information science can support one another's interests and concerns.…”

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We describe work on developing workshop activities that are part of wConnect, a project that is building an online community of women in computer and information science. The workshops are designed by college women for high school girls, with hands-on construction of dynamic web sites. Because of limited workshop time, the activities use scaffolding to help girls achieve the intended learning objectives. In this paper we describe the design of the activities, their formative evaluation in a series of four workshops, and how we are using these results in the larger project.

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“…The application uses a tabbed user interface style similar to that found in Facebook, but the tabs lead to activities that are designed to appeal to the goals and actions of this developmental community. For instance, earlier focus groups had revealed an intense interest in summer internships among undergraduate members, and in particular a desire for alumnae to provide tips or pointers to relevant materials (Rosson et al, 2008). As a result the designers constructed an activity for posting and replying to such opportunities.…”

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“…From the beginning, community members have emphasized that their discussions of education and career issues might involve personal issues (e.g., financial or relationship goals; Rosson et al, 2008), making perceived privacy an important design concern. Thus each website had some protocol for user accounts and authentication.…”

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Developing an Online Community for Women in Computer and Information Sciences: A Design Rationale Analysis

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We analyze the evolutionary design of an online community system designed to support a developmental learning community of women: wConnect Online. The goal of this community is to engage, connect and support women at different developmental levels with respect to education and career goals in the computer and information sciences. We chronicle the system's development as an instance of action design research, showing how a sequence of four design phases were motivated by different design goals that led to systems with differing design rationales. After motivating the research program, we describe each design phase in detail, followed by a general synthesis and discussion of lessons learned.

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“…Because we intend to link women across many physical locations, and who enjoy rather different lifestyles, we are building online community support for wConnect [30]. To now we have focused on recruiting members and engaging them in online activities using a social networking application built using the Facebook API.…”

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The under-representation of women in computer and information 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.

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Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community

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A scaffolded introduction to dynamic website development for female high school students

A scaffolded introduction to dynamic website development for female high school students

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