The socio-demographic divide in Internet usage moderated by digital literacy support

R Tirado-Morueta, JI Aguaded-Gómez… - Technology in …, 2018 - Elsevier
The facilitating conditions (FC) are one of the factors contemplated in the main theories that
explain the use and acceptance of technology. For older adults, these FC can be …

[HTML][HTML] Educación permanente: los programas universitarios para mayores en España como respuesta a una nueva realidad social

JEV Aparicio - Revista de la educación superior, 2014 - Elsevier
La educación de personas mayores constituye una de las funciones clave que hoy debe
asumir la universidad española dentro del marco del aprendizaje permanente y en el actual …

The digital inclusion of older people in Spain: Technological support services for seniors as predictor

R Tirado-Morueta, A Rodríguez-Martín… - Ageing & …, 2023 - cambridge.org
While life expectancy increases in developed countries and there is evidence that
demonstrates the potential of the internet to optimise or compensate for the losses …

Learning in later life: Participation in formal, non-formal and informal activities in a nationally representative Spanish sample

F Villar, M Celdrán - European journal of ageing, 2013 - Springer
This article examines the participation of Spanish older people in formal, non-formal and
informal learning activities and presents a profile of participants in each kind of learning …

Generativity in older age: A challenge for universities of the third age (U3A)

F Villar, M Celdrán - Educational Gerontology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This paper discusses the ways in which university programs for older people should change
to cater to the interests and concerns of generative older people. We describe university …

Enhancing e-learning in old age

P Limone, L Monacis, F Ceglie… - Australian Journal of …, 2018 - search.informit.org
The rapidly growing older population has led researchers to further investigate the cognitive
domains of intelligence, learning, memory and attention, which normally change during …

Empirical research of university programs for older people in Europe: a systematic review

S Menéndez, J Pérez-Padilla, J Maya - Educational Gerontology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The university programs designed for older people (UPOP) is an important educational
resource and it is essential to study them to identify their characteristics, the key aspects of …

Older adults, in Lebanon, committed to learning: Contextualizing the challenges and the benefits of their learning experience

H Hachem, E Vuopala - Educational gerontology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The University for the Third Age, a relatively new concept in Lebanon, provides
educational and social opportunities for older adults. The goal of later-life educational …

Seniors' demographic correlates for motivations to enroll in degree-conferring programs in universities

LK Chen, ST Wang - Educational Gerontology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Policies, practices, and studies have long been focused on nonformal learning for older
adults as if this were the only learning context for grey populations. In fact, today more …

Older Australian's motivation for university enrollment and their perception of the role of tertiary education in promoting healthy aging: a national cross-sectional study

S Brownie - Educational gerontology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The aims of this study were to describe the characteristics of older Australian university
students (aged 60+ years); to identify the factors that motivate late-life, tertiary-level learning; …