Empowering older adults’ informal, self-directed learning: harnessing the potential of online personal learning networks
Abstract Information and communication technologies have had an enormous impact on how we live, work, communicate, re-create, and connect with others. However, there is a paucity of research regarding older adult learners’ adoption and adaptation of Internet-based tools, techniques, and resources to...
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The Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE)
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| description | Abstract Information and communication technologies have had an enormous impact on how we live, work, communicate, re-create, and connect with others. However, there is a paucity of research regarding older adult learners’ adoption and adaptation of Internet-based tools, techniques, and resources to support their informal, self-directed lifelong learning goals. This research contributes to our understanding of how and why older adults leverage the Internet and social media tools to create, develop, and maintain online personal learning networks (oPLNs) for the purposes of self-directed knowledge acquisition, personal development, and the facilitation of healthy aging. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cf3a6f31c3ef460a80799f1c928e5b272023-09-02T02:19:37ZengThe Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE)Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning1793-70782019-08-0114111610.1186/s41039-019-0104-5Empowering older adults’ informal, self-directed learning: harnessing the potential of online personal learning networksDirk Morrison0Jessica McCutheon1Department of Curriculum Studies/Educational Technology & Design, College of Education, University of SaskatchewanSocial Sciences Research Laboratories, University of SaskatchewanAbstract Information and communication technologies have had an enormous impact on how we live, work, communicate, re-create, and connect with others. However, there is a paucity of research regarding older adult learners’ adoption and adaptation of Internet-based tools, techniques, and resources to support their informal, self-directed lifelong learning goals. This research contributes to our understanding of how and why older adults leverage the Internet and social media tools to create, develop, and maintain online personal learning networks (oPLNs) for the purposes of self-directed knowledge acquisition, personal development, and the facilitation of healthy aging.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41039-019-0104-5Older adultsInformal, self-directed learningOnline/Internet/social mediaOnline personal learning networks |
| spellingShingle | Dirk Morrison Jessica McCutheon Empowering older adults’ informal, self-directed learning: harnessing the potential of online personal learning networks Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning Older adults Informal, self-directed learning Online/Internet/social media Online personal learning networks |
| title | Empowering older adults’ informal, self-directed learning: harnessing the potential of online personal learning networks |
| title_full | Empowering older adults’ informal, self-directed learning: harnessing the potential of online personal learning networks |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Empowering older adults’ informal, self-directed learning: harnessing the potential of online personal learning networks |
| title_short | Empowering older adults’ informal, self-directed learning: harnessing the potential of online personal learning networks |
| title_sort | empowering older adults informal self directed learning harnessing the potential of online personal learning networks |
| topic | Older adults Informal, self-directed learning Online/Internet/social media Online personal learning networks |
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