CALL FOR PAPERS:

“International workshop on Culturally-aware Technology Enhanced Learning” CulTEL 2013 

at ECTEL 2013, 17-21 September, Paphos, Cyprus.

 For details, see: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/CulTEL/.

Buzz words – Hypes in E-Learning

Educators, technologists and career changers from all disciplines convene on the fickle E-learning stage for a unique wordplay. Their creative potential is combined. New terms are coined and existing ones redefined. Oh yes, the creative power of e-learning is enormous. This is how a myriad of novel, crazy, wayward, catchy, unspeakable, yet successful terms have emerged. Here are some highlights:

Digital competence & e-Learning for Seniors

It is consensus that promoting digital competence amongst senior citizens is  a way to  support older people to actively get involved in the knowledge and information society, furthermore it prevents social isolation and dependent living and proactively confronts the problems that ageing European societies face.

But how to do it? The use of advanced learning and communication technology for the sake of the personal development of seniors it is a feseable and very promising way. Older people are among the target groups that qualify most for technology-enhanced learning: