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E - Learning -
a Subject for People 50+ ?

From April to June 2002 the ZAWiW in Ulm offered a special virtual seminar.

E - Learning - a Subject for People 50 + ?

• Welcome,
• Introduction of the participants including photo and short description of the persons,
• Description of the seminar,
• Time Table, including different discussions and detailed working plans for the seminar,
• Materials, including Online-Literature and also printed Literature,
• Tips & Tricks,
• Working Area (only open for participants) including the reports of the actual weekly discussion. For further discussions we could use a Forum and a Chat,
• Glossar,
• Results with the finished reports of the different discussions,
• Contacts to ZAWiW.

• April to June 2002
• started by 20 participants, but only 16 have taken over contributions for discussion of the topics.

• to show the different kinds of E-Learning.
• to point out several existing examples.
• to discuss advantages and disadvantages.
• to evaluate convenience for elder people.

• Introduction of the participants.
• Mailinglist including all participants.
• Working Area (open only for participants) for introduction of the weekly reports, for weekly discussions via Chat or Forum.
• Each of the different reports had been appeared every week into the working area for reading and discussing by all participants.
• A fixed time table for all activities.

• The report by the participants for one week was introduced into Working Area.
• All other participants were invited to read this report and to comment via Forum, via Mailinglist or during the weekly discussion via Chat.
• Finally the authors of the special report had to summarise and complete the report.

• all participants are sure, that E-Learning will be very important for advanced training of elder people.
• not all examples or concepts of E-Learning are suited for advanced training of elder people.
• it is very important for elder people, that the content of a seminar will be divided in small learning-units, which can be done with limited necessary time.

• During the seminar also the methods of virtual learning had been tested intensively.
• On basis of the experiences of the seminar the procedure of the seminar had been changed.
• The working time of one week each for the different topics was partly to short.

• The personal objectives of the participants were extremely different.
• Two examples:
  
  • To learn using the Internet and to test, how social contacts may be increased.
  • To learn the methods of E-Learning not theoretically using the literature, but practically by personal doing.

• It was intended, that all participants should be involved actively to get experiences
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• Every participant should prepare a report, either alone or together with an other participant.
• Discussions were done in the Chat, using the Forum or also using the Mailinglist not only for the organisation of the seminar, but also for different contents.

• The methods of advanced training for elder people are increased, especially for elder people which are living outside of cities and far from universities and other places of education.
• Very important is the continious guidance of the institution of the E-Learning offer.
• The E-Learning-moderator should always give new impulses via mailinglist, e-mail or new internet pages.
• All participants should have the feeling, not to be alone in learning.
• For each participant it is necessary to constrain oneself to learn the learning unit during the prepared time interval.