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Everything is now done online: reading newspapers, talking to friends and relatives, paying invoices and taxes, setting up doctor appointments, etc. As such, competences related to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are fundamental. In particular, as mobile technologies and devices such as smartphones or tablets become more and more pervasive and ubiquitous, it is very important to tackle the digital divide issue. And, in a moment where socio-demographic changes resulted in a rapidly growing number of elderly people, it is fundamental to provide them the skills to be connected and integrated in this world. Otherwise, this will not be just a technological disadvantage, but rather a social disadvantage at a societal scale. This article presents a European-wide initiative that addresses this issue by providing technology enhanced training to this target group and an analysis of the achieved results.
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de Carvalho, C.V., Cano, P., Roa, J.M., Wanka, A., Kolland, F. (2018). Technology Enhanced Learning for Senior Citizens. In: Hancke, G., Spaniol, M., Osathanunkul, K., Unankard, S., Klamma, R. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2018. ICWL 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11007. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96565-9_4
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