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    The experience of women students in engineering and mathematics careers: a focus group study
    (IEEE, 2021-04-21) García-Holgado, A.; Verdugo-Castro, S.; Dominguez, A.; Hernández-Armenta, I.; García-Peñalvo, F. J.; Vázquez-Ingelmo, A.; Sánchez-Gómez, M. C.
    The gender gap is a problem that occurs in different forms in regions and countries around the world. It is a goal of large international organisations, governments, companies and other entities. Although it is not a new issue, it is important to continue studying it and seek mechanisms and strategies to attract and maintain more women in these areas. In particular, in the field of education and employment, the STEM areas present large gender gaps whose reduction would not only impact the equality of men and women but would also have an impact on the economy of the countries and on improving the economic situation of women. In this context, there are initiatives in Latin America working on this issue, but it is necessary to look more deeply into the elements that influence the decision to study careers in these areas. In this context, two focus groups have been held as roundtables with STEM women from different Latin American and European countries, to answer a series of questions centred on their motivations and decisions before and during their university studies. The results obtained have provided some inputs for defining gender equality action plans in ten Higher Education Institutions from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Mexico. Furthermore, the results show similarities with previous studies involving STEM women with different Latin American profiles.
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    Gender Balance Actions, Policies and Strategies for STEM: Results from a World Café Conversation
    (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2019-12-27) García-Peñalvo, F. J.; Bello, A.; Dominguez, A.; Romero Chacón, R. M.
    W-STEM project is working to reduce the existing gender gap in Science, specifically in STEM fields in Latin America. During an International Leadership Summit, held in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) on November 26th, 2019 within the project scope, forty-four people, including researchers and policymakers at the higher education institutions, participated in a World Café conversation to discuss about the potential actions, policies and strategies might be develop in the universities to reduce the above mentioned gender gap in STEM studies. Four tables were conducted, and this paper summarizes the most outstanding conclusions of the conversations.
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    Active learning experiences in Engineering Education
    (Tempus, 2019-01-31) García-Peñalvo, F. J.; Alarcón, H.; Dominguez, A.
    For this special issue, we have clustered the selected eleven papers (out of the fifty-seven received contributions) around five active learning experiences: project-based learning (PBL), flip classroom, collaborative and cooperative work, active learning in pre-college and graduate courses, and faculty development on active learning.