Homepage N.A. (Nicole) Flipsen
My main areas of interest are empowerment and gender issues in the context of ICT.
I have gained international working experience for the past years on several large collaboration projects,
most of which are located in Africa.
My main focus in the international setting is guidance of students, course development,
managerial aspects setting-up international partnerships and project development.
Through these projects I came to realize that empowerment and gender issues are very relevant in the African society. As an employee within the Information and Computer Science department I became interested in how gender issues develop in the ICT sector. I see the above article on Gender Issues in ICT as a first important step to gain more insight and do more research on this topic.
Journal
Flipsen, N.A. and Weide, Th.P. van der, Implementing Gender Issues in ICT. Africa Education Review
The rapid technological changes caused by ICT have a strong impact on global societies. This will lead to changes in the traditional role patterns. In this paper we focus on an academic master course to create gender awareness in ICT development with a special emphasis on developing countries.
First we analyze the impact of ICT on society, and derive requirements from society on the introduction of new ICT applications. We transform these requirements into course objectives, and discuss and motivate our strategy to obtain these objectives in the master course. Then we decompose the course objectives and derive a course program.
Conference
Flipsen, N.A. and Weide, Th.P. van der and Reijswoud, V. van and Ssozi, F., Learning without Borders: Community Based Learning in a Development Setting. Engineering Education and Educational Technologies: EEET 2009, July 10th - 13th, 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA
In this paper we describe an experiment with an international variant of community-based service learning. We describe the underlying motivation and organization. We also provide some initial results.
Flipsen, N.A. and Weide, Th.P. van der, The Middle Out Approach. Prato Community Informatics Conference, Nov 4-6, 2009
The Middle Out approach is a method to introduce ICT education in developing countries. The basic idea is to start at a Polytechnic University level. This Polytechnic University starts with the introduction of an ICT program and an Education program. The underlying educational philosophy is learning-by-doing. The practical component directly results in market oriented products. This will enhance a short-term return on investment.
Flipsen, N.A. and Weide, Th.P. van der, Master Course Gender Issues in ICT. Tinfon, 2009
De snelle technologische vernieuwingen van ICT hebben een duidelijke impact op de maatschappij. Daardoor treden veranderingen op in de traditionele rolpatronen zoals we die momenteel kennen. We willen naar ICT onderwijs kijken in het licht van deze maatschappelijke veranderingen vanuit het oogpunt van veranderende rolpatronen.
Om op de veranderingen en de nieuwe vereisten in te spelen worden speciale eisen gesteld aan onderwijs in het algemeen en aan ICT onderwijs (de ontsluitende technologie) in het bijzonder. Deze eisen worden vastgelegd in eindtermen, en vormgegeven in werkvormen.
We illustreren onze benadering aan de hand van een recent verzorgde internationale master course.