STRATEGIC TRAINING ON SEARCHING AND USING MOBILE APPLICATIONS FOR ELDERLY STUDENTS

• DOI: 10.21125/edulearn.2016.0449
• Publication Date: 2016-07-28T17:48:36Z
• Authors: Maria Jose Hernán...; Jose Manuel Muñoz...; Sara Serrate Gonz...
• Keywords: Download

Fast advances in the market for smartphones go hand by with development of multiple and diverse applications that seek to meet a variety user needs. A great number daily routines are dominated mobile aims facilitate improvement our lives. However, when considering elderly smartphone users, they coping double gap their effective use; on one hand, related digital literacy, users need gain training proper use devices; and, other, out unending updating applications, as not always accustomed search download innovative would be useful them.In context an Interuniversity Program Adult Training University Salamanca, group students over 55 years old have participated program strategies enable them better different support enhance social communication skills. previous needs analysis was designed, questionnaire measure level knowledge smartphones, considered useful. After that, adult were trained four-modules workshop. And finally, completed again learning generated.Results obtained confirm elder difficulties using appropriate terminology handling, along fearing unknowing how some applications. The post-results after report higher fundamentally, encourage users' autonomy processes finding