About the PEER - Dare to be wise! project

Graham Smith, UoS CLL

About PEER Dare to be wise!

Overview

Glasgow, 24 August 2012

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Assessment workshop, 24 August 2012

Vision of PEER – Dare to be wise!

We believe that 50+ platforms (= online social platforms for adults 50+) offer tremendous potential for sustaining learning opportunities in later life.

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Our vision is to provide facilitation of informal and non-formal peer learning in online communities supported by customised Web2.0 tools for adults aged 50+.

Sapere aude!

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Objectives – in detail

to identify and assess older people’s usability requirements through the use of participatory user-involvement methods;

to adapt a set of user-friendly open source Web2.0 tools, supported by many 50+ platforms;

to translate this set of adapted Web2.0 tools into Dutch, English, German, Polish, Portuguese;

to develop accompanying guidelines in 23 EU languages on how to provide peer-to-peer learning methods on social platforms;

connect operators of 50+ platforms with each other by arranging a number of network meetings;

to provide an EU-wide map of existing 50+ platforms

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Target groups

Operators of 50+ platforms http://www.peer-learning-50plus.eu/fiftyplusplatform/map

Organisations who want to augment their existing website by introducing user-friendly, Web2.0 tools in the domain of an ageing society, such as 3rd Age Universities, senior associations, care givers of older people and other organisations in this field.

http://www.peer-learning-50plus.eu/fiftyplusplatform/map

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PEER in a nutshell

Funded under the Lifelong Learning Programme /Grundtvig

11 partner organisations coming from 7 countries: AT, BE, DE, NL, PL, PT, UK

Project duration: 24 months, 10/2011 to 09/2013

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www.peer-learning-50plus.eu/

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Our partnership of experts Austria: Zentrum fuer Soziale Innovation / ZSI Germany:

1. Ulm University, Centre for General Scientific Continuing Education / ZAWiW

2. Virtuelles und reales Lern- und Kompetenz-Netzwerk älterer Erwachsener / ViLE e.V.

EU-wide: AGE Platform Europe Netherlands: Netherlands Institute for Health Promotion / NIGZ Poland:

1. University of Science and Technology, Centre of e-learning / AGH2. Ja Kobieta – Fundation for Women's Issues "I am a woman" / Forum 50+

Portugal: 1. Aidlearn2. Universities of the Third Age Network Association / RUTIS

United Kingdom / Scotland: University of Strathclyde, Centre for Lifelong Learning / UoS

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Next steps

Identification and assessment of pre-selected Web2.0 tools Via workshops with adults 50+ 3 months testing of the final Web2.0 tools.

Guidelines for target groups: Educational, organisational and technical aspects of setting

up targeted online peer learning tools; available in the 23 EU languages.

Tested by a number of adult 50+ and by platform operators.

… and dissemination, dissemination and again dissemination …..

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Both your experience and knowledge are important to us.

You are the experts!

Thank you for your contributions!