Social interactions of the elderly: Mapping pedagogical strategies for Distance
| Autor: | Leticia Rocha Machado, Patricia Alejandra Behar, Deyse Cristina Frizzo Sampaio, Jozelina Silva da Silva Mendes, Edimara Heis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Medical education
Computer science 05 social sciences Distance education 050301 education Face (sociological concept) Participant observation Social relation World Wide Web 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Quality of life (healthcare) Asynchronous communication Mediation Virtual learning environment 030212 general & internal medicine 0503 education |
| Zdroj: | 2017 12th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI). |
| Popis: | This research aims to map out possible pedagogical strategies for improve the social relations of elderly in distance courses. Around the world are increasing the number of the old-aged people, at the same time the interest in courses of continued education. The distance education is the one of viable ways for the elders, because allow an increase of best quality of life based in their interests and needs. However, a lack of studies about this subject and who contemplate the aged public is observed, particularly in the social interactions. Therefore, this research mapped possible pedagogical strategies for the distance education that can be adopted with elderly toward to maximize the social relations. The used methodology was case of study qualitative and quantitative. For the data collect, it was used a semi-structured questionnaire, the reports of elderly and participant observation. The participants were 16 elderly aged over 60 years who entered in course of digital inclusion. Through the course, the elderly participated, at distance, in a workshop about literary memories. In this process, it was possible to map pedagogical strategies that allowed greater social interaction among participants. In these mapped strategies, it is possible to observe the utilization of: synchronous and asynchronous tools of the virtual learning environment, the adoption of communication resources through mobile devices, such as WhatsApp, the necessity of face meetings, to remedy potential difficulties in the use of technological resources, the utilization of explanatory tutorials about the communication tools, the teacher intervention and mediation, and others. Social relations, present factors that instigate the elderly and contributing to their quality of life. This reality provides opportunities of depth research about this subject, especially in education. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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