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ERIC Number: EJ1053041
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Sep
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1360-2357
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ICT, Education and Older People in Australia: A Socio-Technical Analysis
Tatnall, Arthur
Education and Information Technologies, v19 n3 p549-564 Sep 2014
People over 65 (or older people) are a growing proportion of the population in many developed countries including Australia. In the last 10 to 12 years interest from this group in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the Internet has also grown considerably. ICT has much to offer older people as a means of keeping in touch with family, perhaps in other parts of the world, to obtain information about health and financial matters, for entertainment and to further their education. It also offers possibilities for intergenerational cooperation with, for example, children coaching their grandparents. This paper concentrates on older people's use of ICT for education, some of this being formal but mostly informal, and adopts a socio-technical framework based on actor-network theory (ANT) to investigate this.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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