Senior´s Learning in the Digital Society (SeLiD)

The main objectives of Senior´s Learning in the Digital Society (SeLiD) are open education and innovative practices in a digital era, focusing on improving and extending high quality learning opportunities for digital technologies and ICT, tailored to the needs of individual low-skilled or low-qualified adults.
The project concentrates on learning and training of basic ICT skills and key digital competences of the elderly. Methods that will be applied are: classical teaching, group learning and training, peer learning, work with manuals, excursions to the shops with electronics, collection of good practices to develop digital literacy and skills of the elderly.
The project starts with a survey by questionnaire and interviews to assess the needs of the elderly and where ICT could improve their daily lives. It will address the use of a wide range of systems such as personal computers, smartphones and tablets, digital systems of agencies and smart technologies at home and in public. The main impact of the project is on isolated elderly, seniors in the communities and senior students of the universities of the third age and senior academies.
Planned activities are ICT courses, training in digital skills, excursions to the shops, companies and digital agencies and research into the need for ICT support and development of digital competences to help the elderly to overcome barriers in their integration into the digital society. The project focuses on many important parts of seniors lives including their digital environment at home and in the wider world.

Context: The project focuses on elderly students and older people in general to improve and develop their digital skills and knowledge. They need special education and training in many fields for a more flexible use of ICT in their daily life and for an active citizenship. Many of them are afraid of digital communication with government agencies, digital and technical equipment at home, new ICT programs and work on Internet because of security threats.

Stakeholders involved: Universidad de Alicante
Vysoke Uceni Technicke V Brne
Otto-von-Guerickeuniveritaet Magdeburg
Uppsala Senioruniversitet
Dresdner Seniorenakademie
Uniwersytet Wroclawski
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz

Key learning points: NEI.

Evaluation: No

Information sources: NEI.

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