Gender and E-Tutoring – A Concept for Gender Sensitive E-Tutor Training Programs

In this paper we will give an insight of how we
implemented aspects of gender-sensitive instructional
design into University Duisburg-Essen’s e-tutor training
program. The basic idea was to integrate research findings
about gender differences in computer and new media access
and appliance into concepts and realizations of online
support. We will provide a detailed description of the
concept and the implementation of guidelines for gendersensitive
online learning environments into our e-tutortraining
program. Thus we will show that it is possible to
create and conduct a gender-sensitive training program
successfully.