MULTIMEDIA REMOTE EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR SENIOR CITIZENS

Abstract

In the EU, the number of elderly people who have a substantial amount of free time at their disposal is increasing year by year. Many pensioners start developing their interests only aſter they have retired. Thus, they pursue various types of education. The need for organising courses for this age group is proven by the immense popularity of Zielona Góra University of the Third Age. The Department of Media and Information Technologies of the University of Zielona Góra developed a model of multimedia education module. The established assumptions were empirically verified and the module was implemented on a Moodle e-learning soſtware platform. A few thousand students have already benefited from the e-learning courses. In order to respond to the intensive demographic changes, it has been decided to adapt the existing remote e-learning solutions to the abilities, needs and expectations of pensioners. The aim of this paper is to determine the theoretical foundations of the applied technical solutions and describe the introduced changes and modifications. An introductory verification of the implemented system has confirmed that the assumptions of the modified version of multimedia remote education system are correct.