期刊名称：Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education
印刷版ISSN：1305-8223
电子版ISSN：1305-8223
出版年度：2019
卷号：15
期号：11
页码：1-8
DOI：10.29333/ejmste/109504
出版社：Pamukkale Univ Dept Sci Education
摘要：At present, IT have become an indispensable condition for the quality of education, but
they are rarely applied in education of senior citizens and their range is quite narrow.
An exception is the methods of teaching computer literacy to older adults, which is
much narrower than IT in education. Meanwhile, they are no less essential both for
adaptation of the elderly to the contemporary conditions of life and for the young
generations. The authors prove that application of these technologies can change the
quality of life for older adults and enables them to extend their professional activity, to
broaden their scope of communication, and to raise their level of social adaptation to
the environment and daily life. It has been found during the research conducted that
the use of IT in education of senior citizens has some essential features and requires
special conditions of application. In the research, questionnaire survey and testing, indepth
interview, expert survey, and participant observation methods were used that
allowed studying the senior citizens’ demands for educational services, computer
literacy improvement, as well as barriers and risks in their getting the education,
conditions for enhancing its efficiency. During the research, disadvantages in
development of IT and software products targeted for education of the aged have been
found. The results obtained allow contributing to the development of concepts of
thriving old age, active longevity, and higher social and professional engagement of
older adults. They are of great importance both for the very senior citizens and for
education providers, as well as for developers of educational software products needed
by older adults and their teachers.
关键词：IT in education; information literacy; senior citizens; education of senior;
citizens; quality of life of senior citizens; software products for education
