Armenia had by far the highest percentage of women MOOC participants, with 60 percent. Neighboring Turkey saw just 35 percent of its MOOC students identify as women.
Canada, Brazil, Australia, Tanzania, South Africa, and Peru saw some of the biggest gender gaps, with some of countries seeing more than 70 percent of its MOOC registrants identify as male.
The New Media Consortium’s (NMC) report outlining coming ed-tech trends charged that MOOC support came from some world leaders who hoped the experimental courses could open educational opportunities for women in the developing world.
Queen Rania of Jordan, in a partnership with MIT and Harvard, created a foundation that will translate edX online courses into Arabic.
Rania “believes MOOCs have the potential to democratize education, especially among young women,” the NMC report says. “In Africa, MOOCs are seen as a low-cost solution to providing college educations to countries with low college degree attainment rates.”
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