Seniors
Learning with Apps
GRUNDTVIG Multilateral projects - 2014
Summary
SenApp develops
learning app for seniors
to learn handling to go online in 4 countries to support them effectively
and individually to become competent ICT user. It focuses on the need for
eInclusion of senior citizens in Europe, who still
being very under-represented when it comes to competent and self-directed
use of ICT. The digital divide still concerns, to a major extent, the older
population. The goal is to develop and implement a App based
training approach motivating and supporting senior citizens engaging
in the digital society by accessing the digital world the very popular, less
expensive and easy to handle tablet-computers (IOS and Android system). The
project aims at optimally supporting seniors in the process of accessing and
becoming involved in the information and knowledge society, by applying the
well-proven formula of using ICT as a learning medium as well as a learning
content. SenApp will develop a non-formal, flexible
and accessible App-based ICT qualification course that matches the very specific needs of this
highly heterogeneous target group. Furthermore, the use of eLearning as training
mode will best support flexibility of content and learning schedule, which
is a fundamental requirement of training offers for this large and much diversified
group. To this end, the project will develop a) a mobile learnign environment
dedicated to tablet-computers , b) develop 25 learning units conceived and
tailored to the learning needs of seniors in four European countries. In order
to cope with the diverse impairments and disabilities of seniors, special
focus will be given to multimedia-enriched didactical elements: Videos, screencasts and interactive exercises. The segmentation of
the content will be adapted to the seniors' learning pace and attention span.
The modular course concept makes it possible to choose and aggregate a variable number of learning units into one course
to respect prior knowledge and preferences.