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7 popular online courses in STEM and gaming that are taught by female leaders in their fields by Connie Chen on Mar 16, 2018, 3:30 PM The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.  It's well-known by now that there are fewer women getting a degree and working in STEM than there are men. More specifically, a report by the US Department of Commerce found that while nearly as many women hold undergraduate degrees as men overall, they make up only about 30% of all STEM degree holders. Furthermore, they filled 47% of all US jobs in 2015 but held only 24% of STEM jobs.
One way for women to break into STEM is education, but you don't need to go back to school, or a physical one anyway, to gain the knowledge that you need. Online learning sites are an affordable and flexible way to teach yourself the foundations and get a feel for the industry, whether you're interested in STEM or other traditionally underrepresented fields like gaming. Since men hold more jobs in these fields, it's not surprising that when you browse online learning sites, there tends to be more male teachers in those subjects as well. However, for a woman looking to approach something like STEM or gaming, the impact of seeing a teacher who looks like her cannot be understated. Similar to how representation in media affects how groups of people perceive themselves and are perceived in the world, representation in STEM and gaming plays an important role in motivating women to overcome and fight back against gender-related barriers in their own career journeys. With this in mind, we found some popular online courses that teach skills in development, game design, math, and more — and they're all taught by women who have achieved great success in their fields. You can learn more about each course and its instructor below.iOS 11 & Swift 4 - The Complete iOS App Development Bootcamp  The course: The highest-rated course on Udemy, this iOS app development class has everything you need to know to create beautiful apps, even if you have no prior programming experience. It's packed with over 50 hours of video content, 100 articles, and other resources to help you ultimately create a portfolio of 20 fully-fledged apps. The instructor: Angela Yu is an iOS and WatchOS developer fluent in Swift and Objective-C. She's also the founder, managing director, and lead iOS instructor at the London App Brewery, a bootcamp where she's taught over 900 students. Yu's first foray into programming was at 12 years old, when she wanted to figure out how to build her own video games. Since then, she's made over 70 apps and games.
Game Design Foundations: Ideas, Core Loops, and Goals  The course: This course explains practical strategies for starting a career in game design, drafting game ideas, and turning concepts into designs that a team can implement. You'll also learn more about the role of a game designer, how to define the core loop of your game, create features of a core, and more. The next course in the series teaches game systems, chance, and strategy. The instructor: Brenda Romero is a game designer, artist, writer, and creative director who entered the video game industry in 1981 at the age of 15 and has worked at Atari, Sir-Tech Software, and Electronic Arts. She received the 2013 Women in Games Lifetime Achievement Award from by Microsoft and the 2015 Game Developers Choice Ambassador Award. Romero is now the game designer in residence at the UC Santa Cruz and the cofounder and COO of Loot Drop, a social and mobile game company.
Introduction to Complex Analysis  The course: Aimed at anyone interested in exploring "a beautiful and important corner of mathematics," this Wesleyan University eight-week math course provides an introduction to complex analysis, which is the theory of complex functions of a complex variable. Topics include the algebra and geometry of complex numbers, differentiation, integration, complex dynamics, power series representation, and the Laurent series. The instructor: Dr. Petra Bonfert-Taylor was a mathematics professor at Wesleyan University until 2015 and is now an engineering professor at Dartmouth College. Though she originally intended to study computer science, she was drawn to mathematics after taking a course on complex analysis. Her other research interests lie in geometric function theory, hyperbolic geometry and the mathematics of medical imaging.
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