Virtual outreach through virtual worlds: A model for attracting and keeping women in computing

Jan Mahar; Margaret Corbit; Jennifer Wofford

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 1036–1041

This Best Practices session will detail a trial site implementation of a virtual world outreach program at Penn State University. Under the direction of a PSU faculty member, volunteer instructors were recruited from the Information Sciences and...

A case study: How an instructor used results from an inventory measuring students’ preferences in online teaching behaviors to personalize instruction

Paula Bigatel; Jan Mahar; Vicki Williams

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 278–279

This presentation will discuss how an instructor and her learning assistants used the results of a survey measuring students’ cognitive profile of self-directed learning and their preferences for online teaching behaviors believed to be important...

Topics: research, Behavior, Students, Implementation Examples & Issues

wConnect: Cultivating a Landscape of Online Places for a Developmental Learning Community

Mary Beth Rosson; Hansa Sinha; Dejin Zhao; John Carroll; Craig Ganoe; Jan Mahar

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 12, No. 4 (2009) pp. 87–97

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...