TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a Programming Course for Senior Citizens Taught by Senior Citizens
AU - Ohashi, Yutaro
AU - Yamachi, Hidemi
AU - Murokoshi, Yasuhiro
AU - Kumeno, Fumihiro
AU - Tsujimura, Yasuhiro
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank all of the concerned parties, i.e., teachers and staff in the participating schools, participating students, and supporters of this study. This study was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18K02828.
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PY - 2020/3/28
Y1 - 2020/3/28
N2 - In this study, we report the curriculum of a programming course case study of senior citizens jointly implemented by the university and a local government in Japan. The objective of the course is to offer lifelong learning opportunities for retired seniors. The program also offers them necessary skills for impacting programming education in the local elementary schools. Through a questionnaire, we design the course by collecting the opinions of the participants to understand the manner in which the participants developed human relations and learning for one year. The research objectives are to study the learnability of the programming course and the course operation among differently aged participants. Through qualitative analysis, we observed distinct characteristics of senior learners with respect to their diversities in terms of motivation, background knowledge, and skills. The second course was taught by senior lecturers who had previously attended the course and the learnability of the second course was better than the previous one. With respect to the instructional design for senior citizens, scheduling, pacing, and diverse learning styles were observed to be the key.
AB - In this study, we report the curriculum of a programming course case study of senior citizens jointly implemented by the university and a local government in Japan. The objective of the course is to offer lifelong learning opportunities for retired seniors. The program also offers them necessary skills for impacting programming education in the local elementary schools. Through a questionnaire, we design the course by collecting the opinions of the participants to understand the manner in which the participants developed human relations and learning for one year. The research objectives are to study the learnability of the programming course and the course operation among differently aged participants. Through qualitative analysis, we observed distinct characteristics of senior learners with respect to their diversities in terms of motivation, background knowledge, and skills. The second course was taught by senior lecturers who had previously attended the course and the learnability of the second course was better than the previous one. With respect to the instructional design for senior citizens, scheduling, pacing, and diverse learning styles were observed to be the key.
KW - Lifelong learning
KW - academia-government collaboration
KW - older adult learner
KW - programming education
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U2 - 10.1145/3395245.3396201
DO - 10.1145/3395245.3396201
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85085923290
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 18
EP - 23
BT - Proceedings of the 2020 8th International Conference on Information and Education Technology, ICIET 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 8th International Conference on Information and Education Technology, ICIET 2020
Y2 - 28 March 2020 through 30 March 2020
ER -