Facilitating Access to the Role Models of Women in STEM: W-STEM Mobile App

W-STEM is a research project funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ program in order to develop concrete actions to modernise the government, management and operation of higher education institutions in Latin America to improve women’s access to STEM programs. Among the main objectives of...

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Autores: García-Holgado, Alicia, Verdugo Castro, Sonia, Sánchez Gómez, María Cruz, García-Peñalvo, Francisco J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/148289
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/148289
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Gender gap
Women visibility
STEM
Mobile app
Acceptance
User perception
Secondary school
Students
5312.04 Educación
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Sumario:W-STEM is a research project funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ program in order to develop concrete actions to modernise the government, management and operation of higher education institutions in Latin America to improve women’s access to STEM programs. Among the main objectives of the project, there is the development of a mobile app to be used in attraction campaigns conducted by the Latin American higher education institutions involved in the project. Specifically, the app aims to facilitate access to the role models of women in areas related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The main content inside the app will be a set of video interviews with women from different ages, cultural backgrounds, profiles, sharing their experiences about their careers, occupation and future plans. This work aims to describe the prototype of the mobile app and the exploratory study conducted with a group of students from secondary education to know their perceptions and opinions about the proposed app and the video interviews.