Writings on women's learning and technology:

Elizabeth Burge, "Learning in Computer Conferenced Contexts: The Learners' Perspective", Journal of Distance Education, Vol, X1, No 1, Spring, 1994. Summarizes the results of qualitative research about learners' responses to using computer conferencing as the primary medium of communication among learners and instructors.

Elizabeth Burge and Helen Lenskyi, "Women Studying in Distance Education: Issues and Principles", Journal of Distance Education, Vol, V, No. 1, Spring, 1990. Describes a women's studies courses offered through educational technologies and using learner-centered principles.

Dianne Currie, "The Construction of Gender at UBC Computing Services", Feminist Collections. Vol, 17, No. 2, Winter, 1996. Describes different approaches, based on gender, to the use of computers and to the provision of computer user support services at the University of British Columbia.

Gill Kirkup, "The Importance of Gender as a Category in Open and Distance Learning", keynote address at Putting the Student First: Learner Centered Approaches in Open and Distance Learning, Open University East Anglia, Cambridge, 1995. Outlines some of the issues that are highlighted when documenting women's experiences in using new learning technologies in open and distance learning and in other settings.

Susan May, "Women's Experience as Distance Learners, Access and Technology", Journal of Distance Education. Vol, X1, No. 1, Spring, 1994. Describes the responses of women distance learners to their experience and points out the importance of distance education in providing access to learning, even though women still faced other challenges, such as limited time.

Christine von Prummer, "Women-friendly perspectives in distance education", keynote address at conference on Feminist Pedagogy and Women Friendly Perspectives in Distance Education, Umea, Sweden, 1993. Outlines research and observations about the application of feminist pedagogical principles to distance learning programs, noting that social learning features were important to many learners.

Leslie Regan Shade, "Being Digital and Domestically Challenged: A Gendered Perspective on Access", chapter in PhD thesis, Gender, Community and Social Constitution of the Internet. Highlights some of the more important considerations that relate to women's access to and use of Internet-based communication.

Leslie Regan Shade, "Women, the World Wide Web, and Issues of Privacy", Feminist Collections, Vol. 17, No. 2, Winter, 1996, pp. 33-35. Addresses issues related to personal safety, trust and privacy that arise with the use of an open communication system such as the World Wide Web.

Ongoing Resources (Web and print based)

Alliance for a Connected Canada is an association committed to ensuring access to communications technology. Network Canada Alliance: http://www.global.com/connect

Canadian Women's Internet Association: http://www.women.ca/

Feminist Collections: A quarterly of women's studies resources. Published by University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian, 430 Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison, WI, 53706, and available on WWW. Usually includes some articles about women and technology: Vol. 17, No. 2, Winter 1996 is a special issue, on Women's Studies and Information Technology: Reports from the Field http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/fcmain.htm

Information Highway Working Group: IHWG's states is mission as follows: "Canada has a history of turning communications technologies into a tools for national cohesion. It also has a history of making sure that everyone has access to these tools. The IHWG is working on policy alternatives to ensure that this historical legacy makes it onto the information highway". http://www.nawgits.com/

Women'space, print and web based newsletter produced in Canada and designed "to promote accessibility to the Internet, its tools, information and resources; enhance the effectiveness of women's organizing through national and global connections; bring global online resources to local community actions; support the exchange of ideas and experiences and amongst women and women's groups." (Women'space masthead) http://www.softaid.net/cathy/vsister/w~space/womspace.html

Women's VET Network (WINVET-Women in vocational and technical training in Australia) : http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/