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Welcome to the E-Learning and Knowledge-Sharing (ELKS) Community, led by the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester, UK.

ELKS is affiliated with the United Nations' Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN-GAID)

Forthcoming ELKS seminar online... Tuesday 15 December 2009, 11am - 12.15pm GMT Seniorlab: Lifelong learning for Senior Citizens in the Digital Age The speaker: Ricardo Torres Kompen, i2Cat Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, and The Education research group at Citilab, Cornellà, Spain URL for the seminar: https://connect.le.ac.uk/elks15dec2009/ Introduction to the seminar: Senior citizens are usually the group with less experience in the use of the Internet, as shown by numerous studies. Society's image of senior citizens is, in general, shown in a negative light, mainly because of social prejudice and economic factors, that associate old age with a plethora of negative concepts, such as burden, dependency, cost, illnesses, obsolescence and lack of productivity. On the other hand, this growing segment of the population is being perceived as a potential market for service companies, and is also being addressed by governments, which are providing support for the social and health needs of this age group. The objective of Seniorlab project is to put senior citizens at the centre of the knowledge society, under the belief that senior citizens should not have to adapt to new technologies and tools, but rather that these should be adapted to senior citizens' needs, and it should also be taken into account what they can provide to society. Seniorlab is, in this context, a social innovation that regards people – senior citizens in this case – as the drivers of social and cultural innovation. In this seminar, we will provide an overview of the Seniorlab project and its planning and development phases followed by a description of methodologies and participants. We will outline how we use project-based learning, Living Lab methodologies and social networking. We will also provide results from evaluations and future plans for the Seniorlab. About Ricardo: Ricardo Torres Kompen is a researcher in the field of technology enhanced learning and multimedia. Currently enrolled in a Doctoral programme in Multimedia Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Ricardo’s PhD thesis is focused on the personalisation of learning through the use of multimedia and technology. He works as e-Learning cluster coordinator for the i2Cat Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, and is also involved in the Education research group at Citilab, an innovation center based on Cornellà, Spain. He collaborates with the Seniorlab project, a project whose aim is to help senior citizens use ICTs in innovative ways, and also coordinates the Hort Digital project (The Digital Orchard), a living lab approach to helping high school teachers use technology in the classroom, by developing innovative projects and strategies. Ricardo collaborates with the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester, UK, since 2008.

Forthcoming ELKS seminar online...

Tuesday 15 December 2009, 11am - 12.15pm GMT

Seniorlab: Lifelong learning for Senior Citizens in the Digital Age

The speaker:
Ricardo Torres Kompen, i2Cat Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, and The Education research group at Citilab, Cornellà, Spain

URL for the seminar: https://connect.le.ac.uk/elks15dec2009/

Introduction to the seminar:
Senior citizens are usually the group with less experience in the use of the Internet, as shown by numerous studies. Society's image of senior citizens is, in general, shown in a negative light, mainly because of social prejudice and economic factors, that associate old age with a plethora of negative concepts, such as burden, dependency, cost, illnesses, obsolescence and lack of productivity. On the other hand, this growing segment of the population is being perceived as a potential market for service companies, and is also being addressed by governments, which are providing support for the social and health needs of this age group.

The objective of Seniorlab project is to put senior citizens at the centre of the knowledge society, under the belief that senior citizens should not have to adapt to new technologies and tools, but rather that these should be adapted to senior citizens' needs, and it should also be taken into account what they can provide to society. Seniorlab is, in this context, a social innovation that regards people – senior citizens in this case – as the drivers of social and cultural innovation.

In this seminar, we will provide an overview of the Seniorlab project and its planning and development phases followed by a description of methodologies and participants. We will outline how we use project-based learning, Living Lab methodologies and social networking. We will also provide results from evaluations and future plans for the Seniorlab.

About Ricardo:
Ricardo Torres Kompen is a researcher in the field of technology enhanced learning and multimedia. Currently enrolled in a Doctoral programme in Multimedia Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Ricardo’s PhD thesis is focused on the personalisation of learning through the use of multimedia and technology. He works as e-Learning cluster coordinator for the i2Cat Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, and is also involved in the Education research group at Citilab, an innovation center based on Cornellà, Spain. He collaborates with the Seniorlab project, a project whose aim is to help senior citizens use ICTs in innovative ways, and also coordinates the Hort Digital project (The Digital Orchard), a living lab approach to helping high school teachers use technology in the classroom, by developing innovative projects and strategies.

Ricardo collaborates with the Beyond Distance Research Alliance at the University of Leicester, UK, since 2008.

About ELKS

ELKS shares resources and expertise via online forums about using technology in learning.

ELKS activities involve:

analysing existing and on-going research, programmes and practices in e-learning and distance learning, to identify best practice and developing guidelines, standards or templates for dissemination
sharing knowledge and findings of research studies on cutting-edge, new or emergent issues in higher education
identifying technological or organizational transformational solutions in order to overcome barriers to development using Information and Communication Technologies in the higher education sector
actively seeking opportunities for, and facilitating, multi-stakeholder partnerships and resource sharing in research into e-learning and distance learning education.

ELKS members take part in and host discussions, seminars and courses, entirely online, to exchange and inform one another in areas of expertise in the research and practice of e-learning. Online events are focused for maximum benefit from minimum investment of time.

ELKS invites institutions and individuals to become members and help staff and students around the world better to understand and use technologies to support learning.

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