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Thursday, September 10, 2020

IoC: Online learning levels out coding skills | Products - Electronics Weekly

Figures from the Institute of Coding (IoC) suggest online learning of coding skills is helping achieve a gender balance, levelling out a previously male-orientated field, as Alun Williams, Web Editor, Electronics Weekly reports.

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Recent course sign-ups during lockdown have shown a near gender balance (47% female vs 51% male). The IoC described this as a marked improvement from the gender split seen last year in more traditional digital skills education, where only 16% of computer science graduates were women...

Its collection of online digital skills courses is hosted on the “social learning” platform FutureLearn and has been created in partnership with the University of Leeds.
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Source: Electronics Weekly