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Educational Use of E-mentoring to Encourage Women into Science and Engineering

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An important emerging area of Internet use for education is electronic mentoring or e-mentoring. The Internet provides an ideal communication medium that is both broad and flexible enough to provide unique opportunities for students and mentors. Today, women workers represent a minority in the fields of science and engineering. In Korea, a government sponsored pilot program Women into Science and Engineering (WISE) was begun in 2001 at Ewha Womans University to encourage female students at all school levels to pursue careers in science and engineering. Within the WISE program, an e-mentoring pilot study based on a bulletin board system was developed and tested as an educational tool for encouraging female students. The following conclusions were determined from the pilot study. While the survey of students indicated a positive response to the e-mentoring program, analysis of the bulletin board data revealed that less than half of the students actively participated in the program. The study suggests that e-mentoring programs require more than just a technical and administrative framework to be a success. It requires an active and constant feedback system to ensure that everyone is participating in the program.

Supported by KOSEF-R07-2002-001-01001-0(2002) and KRF-2001-005-C00018.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

    Heisook Lee

  2. Department of Math Education, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

    Sunsook Noh

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  1. Division of Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Guseong-Dong, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea

    Chin-Wan Chung

  2. Dept. of Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shillim-Dong, Gwanak-Gu, Seoul, 151-742, Korea

    Chong-Kwon Kim

  3. Cyber Database Solutions, Inc., 3445 Executive Center Drive, Suite 256, TX, 78731, USA

    Won Kim

  4. Dept. of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore, 117543

    Tok-Wang Ling

  5. Korea Network Information Center, 11F, KTF B/D 1321-11, Seocho2-Dong, Seocho-Gu, Seoul, 137-857, Korea

    Kwan-Ho Song

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Lee, H., Noh, S. (2003). Educational Use of E-mentoring to Encourage Women into Science and Engineering. In: Chung, CW., Kim, CK., Kim, W., Ling, TW., Song, KH. (eds) Web and Communication Technologies and Internet-Related Social Issues — HSI 2003. HSI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2713. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45036-X_8

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