Of MOOCs & Men
July 10th, 2011
The University of Illinois, Springfield, is running a Massively Open Online Course – a MOOC (organized by Ray Schroeder). If you’ve never heard of a MOOC, read Marc Parry’s article in the Wired Campus blog. This MOOC is “devoted to examining the state of online education and where e-learning is heading.”
What I’ve been wondering for a while (and even commented on a blog post on elearnspace, but my comment wasn’t posted), is why the the presenters are so overwhelmingly male.
Here’s the list:
Ray Schroeder (UIS) Moderator
Bruce Chaloux (SREB)
Bob Hansen (UPCEA)
Witt Salley (MoDLA)
Karen Swan (UIS) Moderator
Phil Ice (APUS)
Ben Arbaugh (UWOSH)
Michael Cheney (UIS) Moderator
Alexandra Pickett (SUNY)
Bethany Bovard (NMSU)
Nic Bongers (Oakland U.)
Glenda Morgan (UIUC) Moderator
David Middleton (Seton Hall U.)
Patricia McGee (U. Texas San Antonio)
Cable Green (Creative Commons)
Larry Ragan (PSU World Campus)
Jeff Newell (IL Com College Board)
Shari McCurdy Smith (UIS) Moderator
George Siemens (Athabasca)
Jason Rhode (NIU)
Shari McCurdy Smith (UIS) Moderator
Karen Vignare (MSU)
Linda C. Smith (UIUC)
Curt Bonk (IU)
Bruce Chaloux (SREB)
Seb Schmoller (ALT UK)
By my count, that’s 7 women to 18 men.
Geez and I thought education was woman’s work…
July 12th, 2011 at 8:38 am
I’m still getting different numbers: 17 male to 9 female – but yes, nearly 2 to 1. I wonder if that is also indicative of the entire online ed. industry or somehow different in this particular environment?
July 13th, 2011 at 5:13 am
I’ve noticed that there is an inner (male) circle in the MOOC environment, though this is definitely a broader tendency, have a look here for just one example that was easy to find: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/itp/pages/faculty.html
What is remarkable to me is that people get away with this in the 21st century – and that so few people say anything.
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