Abstract
Learning plays a key role in ageing societies as it can help to address many of the related challenges and opportunities. Opportunities to learn should be given to senior citizens through appropriate local lifelong learning programmes. There is a need to improve research and development on learning tools and approaches designed to meet the different needs of older people. ICT has an important role to play in developing learning opportunities for older people both as a topic in its own right and as a means of learning in the so called knowledge society. This paper reports on a Hong Kong case survey understanding the role of ICT in lifelong learning for elderly and its impact of learning activity. The survey results suggest numbers of areas should be taken into consideration for older people as both learners and mentors.
Highlights
In recent years the notion of lifelong learning has attracted much interest in the public debate, in particular with regard to strategies for fostering development in a knowledge-based society and economy
To identify useful and relevant features which Hong Kong may learn from the above studies in formulating appropriate measures to promote lifelong learning opportunities for older persons.; Beside that, additional data on the importance assigned to social empowerment of older people due to the use of ICT in their learning courses, as well as the identification of affected social groups was collected to provide essential context information in order to identify prevalence and strategy for the policy formation framework
The online learning initiatives were organized in the context of an experimental 8-month education programme in various elderly centers in Hong Kong aimed at introducing a large number of over-60s to the basics of ICT
Summary
In recent years the notion of lifelong learning has attracted much interest in the public debate, in particular with regard to strategies for fostering development in a knowledge-based society and economy. UNESCO's "Policy Paper for Change and Development in Higher Education" urges higher education institutions to make greater use of the advantages offered by the advancements of communication technologies so that "each university should become an open university offering possibilities for distance learning and learning in various points in time" [5]. The e-learning is not seen as a shift from the traditional to open learning, but rather as a support to conventional learning processes with the use of modern information technology and distance educational methods. According to the cited UNESCO report [5] open and distance learning is one of the most rapidly growing fields of education, and its potential impact on all education delivery systems has been greatly accentuated through the development of ICT – based technologies, and in particular the World Wide Web. E-learning at the tertiary levels shows a two-track development pattern. Pensive, user friendly, actively motivating, multimedia supported and widely accessible
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