Institute on Gender Technology and Education
IT for Change’s Institute on Gender, Technology and Education
A short course for women professionals in higher education institutions in India
About the Institute
In the current context of increased technology-mediated education practices, there are new challenges for women’s empowerment and gender equality. To move towards gender justice, higher education institutions need to re-examine their institutional cultures, within and outside the classroom. The National Education Policy 2020, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has suggested a blended model of teaching and learning. This would allow for 40% of each course to be taught and assessed online. This can be a challenge in the present context of inequitable access to technology and poses a serious risk of furthering gender inequality in terms of access to higher education.
The Institute on Gender, Technology and Education organized by IT for Change and NMKRV College for Women, Bengaluru with support from the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), will be open to women professionals in higher education including principals, deans, heads of departments in a college/university, teachers and lecturers in undergraduate or postgraduate programmes (in any discipline), as well as administration or management professionals in the education sector. The course will enable them to navigate changing education spaces and work towards equitable access in higher education.
===Institute objectives=== Through this course we hope to enable women professionals in higher education to:
- Acquire a critical understanding of gender, technology and education
- Improve working knowledge on safe and inclusive internet use
- Apply an intersectional gender lens to ‘technology in education practices
Course Transaction
- Dates: August 20-21st, 2022
- Duration - One and a half days (10.00 -5.00 pm on day 1, 10.00 -1.00 on day 2)
- Type of Learning: Lectures, case study sessions, panel discussion and group learning exercises
- Transaction: The course will be transacted in English and will require engagement with readings, feedback and assessments to be completed and submitted in English.