{"id":9214,"date":"2018-07-19T15:46:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T19:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=9214"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:51","slug":"smart-online-courses-closing-the-gender-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/19\/smart-online-courses-closing-the-gender-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Smart\u2019 online courses closing the gender gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9215\" style=\"width: 519px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9215\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9215\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Devices displaying online learning&quot;\" width=\"509\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340.jpg 509w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340-125x83.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/online-education-internet-3412498\/\">(kreatikar\/Pixabay)<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School of Information researchers\u00a0<strong>Christopher Brooks<\/strong>, <strong>Joshua Gardner,\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Kaifeng Cheng<\/strong>, presented findings at the London Festival of Learning that showed that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/educationmediacentre.org\/researchnews\/how-smart-online-courses-can-help-close-the-gender-gap\/\">replacing images of men with women in online courses encouraged\u00a0<\/a><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/educationmediacentre.org\/researchnews\/how-smart-online-courses-can-help-close-the-gender-gap\/\">female students<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/educationmediacentre.org\/researchnews\/how-smart-online-courses-can-help-close-the-gender-gap\/\">\u00a0to engage more with the course<\/a>. These researchers are also working toward supporting the development of online courses with tailored content for the learners.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U-M research team conducted an experiment in which students were split in two groups: one was shown a female instructor and male data lab assistants in the course lectures, while the other group saw a male instructor with male data lab assistants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Results showed that female students engaged significantly more with their course materials when the lecture videos featured more women. There was also an opposite, though much smaller, effect for males viewing lectures featuring more women.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Information researchers\u00a0Christopher Brooks, Joshua Gardner,\u00a0and Kaifeng Cheng, presented findings at the London Festival of Learning that showed that\u00a0replacing images of men with women in online courses encouraged\u00a0female students\u00a0to engage more with the course. These researchers are also working toward supporting the development of online courses with tailored content for the learners. The U-M research team conducted\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/07\/19\/smart-online-courses-closing-the-gender-gap\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":9215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[440,485,130,260],"class_list":["post-9214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-coursera","tag-online-learning","tag-research","tag-si"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340.jpg",509,340,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340.jpg",509,340,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340.jpg",509,340,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340.jpg",509,340,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340.jpg",509,340,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340-509x300.jpg",509,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340.jpg",509,340,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/online-3412498__340.jpg",374,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Samantha DeRosia, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/srderosi\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"School of Information researchers\u00a0Christopher Brooks, Joshua Gardner,\u00a0and Kaifeng Cheng, presented findings at the London Festival of Learning that showed that\u00a0replacing images of men with women in online courses encouraged\u00a0female students\u00a0to engage more with the course. 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