The importance of outreach programs to unblock the pipeline and broaden diversity in ICT education Lang, Catherine, Craig, Annemieke and Egan, Mary Anne 2016, The importance of outreach programs to unblock the pipeline and broaden diversity in ICT education, International journal of information and communication technology education, vol. 12, no. 1, January-March, pp. 38-49, doi: 10.4018/IJICTE.2016010104. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The importance of outreach programs to unblock the pipeline and broaden diversity in ICT education Author(s) Lang, Catherine Craig, Annemieke orcid.org/0000-0003-4295-7428 Egan, Mary Anne Journal name International journal of information and communication technology education Volume number 12 Issue number 1 Season January-March Start page 38 End page 49 Total pages 12 Publisher IGI Global Place of publication Hershey, Pa. Publication date 2016-01 ISSN 1550-1876 1550-1337 Summary There is a need for outreach programs to attract a diverse range of students to the computing discipline. The lack of qualified computing graduates to fill the growing number of computing vacancies is of concern to government and industry and there are few female students entering the computing pipeline at high school level. This paper presents three outreach programs that have the underlying assumption that students need to be reminded about the creativity and potential of computing so that it remains on the radar of their future career options. Each program instigated social and cultural change through a paradigm shift where girls moved from being ICT consumers to ICT creators. By exposing students to a wide variety of ICT activities and careers during secondary schooling, they were more likely to consider studying information systems, computer science or any other computing course at the university level. Results are presented showing student attitudinal changes as well as observed increases in enrolments at secondary school and university courses Language eng DOI 10.4018/IJICTE.2016010104 Field of Research 080699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 939904 Gender Aspects of Education HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2016, IGI Global Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30080959 Document type: Journal Article Collection: Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 27 Jan 2016, 11:30:49 EST Thu, 28 Jan 2016, 04:02:04 EST Thu, 28 Jan 2016, 07:41:24 EST Tue, 16 Feb 2016, 10:54:39 EST Tue, 16 Feb 2016, 11:11:34 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 3 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 202 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 27 Jan 2016, 11:30:49 EST

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