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Remote IT education for senior citizens

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Hironobu Takagi,

Akihiro Kosugi,

Tatsuya Ishihara,

Kentarou FukudaAuthors Info & Claims

W4A '14: Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference

Article No.: 41, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/2596695.2596714

Published: 07 April 2014 Publication History

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Information technologies (IT) have great potential to improve the everyday lives of senior citizens, but their lack of skills prevents them from exploiting the possibilities. Skilled seniors can effectively teach unskilled seniors based on their deep understanding of the barriers and needs of their generation, but skilled seniors are scarce. Distant learning methods could be a solution, but their unfamiliarity with IT and strong preference for face-to-face learning are challenges. To make the distant course closer to the face-to-face experience, we developed a remote education system with real-time gesture visualization integrated with multiple audio and video streams between the teachers and learners. In this paper, we will introduce our remote course system and the course design, and then report results of the trial remote course approach.

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Remote IT education for senior citizens
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Distance learning
    2. E-learning
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Information systems education

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DOI:10.1145/2596695

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Carnegie Mellon University
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University of Lisbon, Portugal

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