Abstract
Sustainability and the Agenda 2030 bring as main concern the promotion of Lifelong Learning. A diversity of aspects is important to consider improving quality of life: (a) access to preventive and health promotion actions through training programs and continuous digital inclusion; (b) the technological innovation development for the contexts involved in the programs of permanent training and digital inclusion, encouraging action research and teaching applied to real situations. An example is the use of mobile devices in health. Interesting alternative in well-being and education situations, where there is a need to involve a large number of people and there are difficulties in accessing information, either because of the distance from urban centers or the lack of health professionals and educational actions, especially for the prevention and improvement of quality of life. In this way, this study focuses on: (i) social aspects - access to preventive and health promotion actions through training programs and continuous digital inclusion; (ii) technological - the development of a specific application for the contexts involved in the programs of permanent training and digital inclusion, encouraging action research and teaching applied to real situations, through mobile technologies. Considering the technological advances and the identification of different pedagogical strategies, this paper presents a proposal of online booklet for elderly people about functional exercises. Considering the technological advances and the identification of different pedagogical strategies, this paper presents a proposal of a process that includes some objectives from SDG 3 and 4 for extension activities for developing a booklet as a concept prove.
Highlights
Open and Distance Education for lifelong learning is a demanding in a diverse area, especially in health
Innovative technological applications have been developed with the goal of to being theoretical proof of concepts, and to bring economic and social impacts at short, medium and long term
Scenario-based strategies allow that students to organize and to structure answers for the presented situations, as well as it allows the usage of practical activities that represent or even require other activities and knowledge acquired in the real world
Summary
Open and Distance Education for lifelong learning is a demanding in a diverse area, especially in health. The face to face, flexible and open education are placed to evolve and evaluate the process of social inclusion and entrepreneurship in Higher Education (HE) (UK Universities, 2018). Innovative technological applications have been developed with the goal of to being theoretical proof of concepts, and to bring economic and social impacts at short, medium and long term. The usage of mobile technologies is an example of this kind of action, in which the application is seen at clinical and at educational context. In the context of proposal and development of digital booklet, realizes that there is a need of to better determine preventive actions to population, especially the poorer population, due to lack of resources to access technologies
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