Changing patterns of perceived ICT skill levels of elderly learners in a digital literacy training course

• Main Authors: Miwa, Makiko, Nishina, Emi, Kurosu, Masaaki, Takahashi, Hideaki, Yaginuma, Yoshitomo, Hirose, Yoko, Akimitsu, Toshio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Library and information science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/154327
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Background. In 2010, the Open University of Japan began offering a one-semester face-to-face digital literacy (DL) training course at each of its 50 study centers to help elderly students use personal computers (PC) and the Internet for study. A series of checklists was completed by students before...