Modelling and Social Impacts at

This paper is an interim report on our research project “The Arduous Gender”. In our project we examine the social construction of gender in relationship to ICT and e-learning in particular. While there have been studies examining the existence of quantitative gender differences in e-learning, the construction of gender in this field has remained empirically unexamined. Therefore, our basic research question is, whether students use e-learning to do gender and if so, which gender concepts are prevalent. With the help of quantitative and qualitative interviews we have examined various aspects of students ' e-learning and ICT usage, their attitudes and their personal positioning toward these media. Our results so far are twofold. In our sample we coul