Digital peer learning for adults 50plus

Along Horac's motto "Sapere aude!" (which means: dare to be wise) PEER aims to support peer-to-peer learning approaches in later life which is challenged to design innovative approaches. Online social platforms and especially 50plus platforms hold a tremendous potential for sustaining the older people’s learning opportunites whose lives are bound by their immediate environment.
Thus, PEER aims a) to identify, test and adapt a set of lightweighted open source Web 2.0 tools, and b) to investigate motivating factors for peer-to-peer learning of older people. All investigative activites will be based on participatroy user involvement methods.
By meeting the needs of a large and growing demographic group following core results are envisaged:

1. Guidelines (in all 23 EU languages) on how to motivate older people for P2P learning in general and on 50plus platforms in particular, by instructing on pedagogical, organisation and technical aspects including quality standards for setting up targeted online P2P learning tools.
2. A package of costumised open source Web 2.0 tools, translated into German, English, Dutch, Polish and Portugues) will be disseminated to operators of 50plus platforms and 3rd Age Universities throughout EU27.
3. Network meetings in the six partner countries with the target groups for continouse dialogue and exploitation purposes.

PEER constitutes a significant breakthrough in the innovative application of Web 2.0 tools to enable older people to exchange knowledge and to enjoy entertainment.

Team:

• Magª. Maria Schwarz-Woelzl (project leader)
• Magª. Pamela Bartar, MAS
• Ing. Bernhard Bauch
• Sylvia Burger
• Patricia Grygar
• Dr. Magª. ilse Marschalek
• Mag. Wolfgang Michalek
• Erwin Rennert
• Magª. Teresa Schäfer / Schaefer, (formerly known as Holocher-Ertl)
• Dr. Christian Voigt

Section: Technology and Knowledge

Partners:

• AGE Platform Europe
• AidLearn
• Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• Ja Kobieta – Fundation for Women's Issues "I am a woman"
• Universities of the Third Age Network Association
• University of Science and Technology
• University of Strathclyde
• University of Ulm
• Virtuelles und reales Lern- und Kompetenz-Netzwerk älterer Erwachsene

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Tags: ageing society, lifelong learning, social inclusion, technology enhanced learning