Blended Learning Approaches to Enhance Gender Mainstreaming

Abstract

At the German labour market gender inequalities exist with respect to occupation. In order to counteract these inequalities, it is important to establish a policy of gender mainstreaming also in the area of education and to orient training measures in a gender-sensitive way. But how? The authors introduce the blended learning concept of the further education measure Managementand show that the consideration of female learning characteristics is possible when developing training measures. The evaluation of E-Office Management illustrates that a gender-sensitive further education measure can contribute to the enhancement of gender mainstreaming. On the basis of the described aspects of blended learning scenarios as well as due to the evaluation results, a set of standard rules for gender-sensitive, computer-assisted learning concepts has been formulated.