Abstract
In an aging population with a changing demographic structure, the government aims to ensure that elderly people receive care. In the concept of lifelong learning, education opportunities are available to senior learners, not just children and young people. The sustainable development for senior learners becomes a very important issue because it promotes a variety of learning activities for senior learners. Many universities have started to offer education for senior learners in Taiwan. Positive experiences for senior learners in senior universities can be fostered by ensuring the sustainable development of senior education. In this paper, a study on sustainable development for senior learners is proposed. This study aims to explore potential tools or approaches in evaluating the sustainable development for senior learners for decision making. In this study, two approaches are applied to analyze the sustainable development for senior learners. The first is a statistical analysis, and the second is the random forest model. The methodology of statistical analysis focuses on three aspects such as social assistance, inspiration, and the learning fulfillment for senior learners in senior universities. The random forest model is used to generate decision rules to support decision making. The random forest in this study obtained 22 decision rules. The results suggest that the items in the questionnaire and the decision rules from random forest could provide useful information that allows decision-makers to analyze the sustainable development of senior learners.
Highlights
The quality of life for the senior learner is reliant on health [1]
This study aims to explore potential tools or approaches in evaluating the sustainable development of senior learners for decision-makers
It first uses statistical analysis to study on three aspects for senior learners, senior learners, social assistance, inspiration, and learning fulfillment
Summary
The quality of life for the senior learner is reliant on health [1]. University provides variant ways of living for living better and is focused on teaching activity [2]. Researchers focused on teaching activities, learning styles or their effects on students [5,6,7,8]. They did not study the positive experience of elderly learners. The decision tree classifier is a classification method so that decision rules can be generated to reveal the feedback of senior learners [1]. Because it requires the specific development and the analysis of feedback for senior universities, a study on the sustainable development for senior learners is proposed in this paper.
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