Abstract
Learning, eLearning and distance education has a significant function on the elderly for advancing well-being, which has indicated in the literature. In addition to this, e-learning provides an opportunity to become unified with the rest of society to older people. In this context, older people have extensive opportunities to raise the qualified life and enable lifelong learning and inclusion in learning communities by using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). The number of users over age 65 has more than doubled since 2000. Currently elderly users represent less than 10 % of MOOC users. Besides, the certain outcome of younger participants aging will raise the number of older people using the Internet the next decades. And, there is no study has been carried out on the accessibility of MOOCs for elderly users in Turkey context.
Highlights
All over the world, as a result of both increased life expectancy and declining birth rates led to population aging of countries
In this work it has reported that the accessibility of the three Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) websites for elderly people
These results will lead to a first approximation of the web accessibility issues of MOOCs for elderly participants in context of Turkey
Summary
As a result of both increased life expectancy and declining birth rates led to population aging of countries. Most of the developed countries have population aging issue earlier than other portion of the world. It was considered that the number of people aged 60 or above to be 205 million in 1950 in the world, with just three countries (China, India, and the United States) having more than 10 million older people. 60 or over age group will be growing 3.5 times faster than the AKGÜL / Web Accessibility of MOOCs for Elderly Students: The Case of Turkey total population from 2025-2030. Web accessibility studies must address these challenges confronted by older people. MOOCs have great potentials for the active learning and well-being of elderly people
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