Title :
UnibookSE: An innovative environment for life-long learning
Author :
Chimos, K. ; Bassios, Michael ; Karvounidis, Theodoros ; Kostis, Ioannis ; Douligeris, C. ; Katsanakis, I. ; Botsikas, A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf., Univ. of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
Abstract :
This paper focuses on the application of social networking technologies - in particular Web 2.0 - in fulfilling the needs for senior citizens´ education, information provision and communication. Unibook is a flexible platform which has been recently designed and implemented to provide synchronous and asynchronous learning in a university environment, which has been customized in its “SE” version to cover the aforementioned needs. UnibookSE provides online communication, including attendance of multimedia courses from different terminals (PCs, mobile phones, PDAs) with advanced features, to facilitate senior users. In this paper, the technical characteristics of UnibookSE are presented. Furthermore, the technological and operational innovations are analyzed, as well as potential extensions and improvements.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; social networking (online); UnibookSE; Web 2.0; asynchronous learning; information communication; information provision; innovative environment; life long learning; multimedia courses; senior citizens education; social networking technologies; Educational institutions; Guidelines; Senior citizens; Servers; Social network services; Unibook; elders; lifelong learning; mashups; social networks; sychronous & asychronous learning; web 2.0;
Conference_Titel :
Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 2012 15th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Villach
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2425-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2426-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICL.2012.6402144
