Educational Technology

August 5, 2015

Hacking Diversity

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:39 am

By Kristin Majcher, Technology Review

Anyone with Internet access and a computer can learn how to write a few lines of code these days. Free tutorials and information from sites like Codecademy, which has been used by more than 25 million people, offer widespread access to instruction. They might even be able to break down barriers for groups traditionally underrepresented in technology, including women, blacks, and Hispanics. This open-access model does seem to help—Codecademy says 34 percent of its users are women, for example, nearly double the percentage of female graduates from university computer science programs in the United States.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/539111/hacking-diversity/

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