移动学习背景下老年教育创新与发展

Applying Mobile Learning to Innovate and Develop Elderly Education

随着移动通信技术的快速发展和智能终端设备的日益普及,移动学习渐渐地成为现代人的一种生活方式。移动学习具有灵活性、便利性和泛在性等特点。在人口老龄化程度日益加深的背景下,老年教育供给侧和需求侧的矛盾越来越突出,利用移动学习,创新发展老年教育,缩小“数字鸿沟”,使更多的老年人能够接受老年教育,提高生活品质,有利于促进积极老龄化和社会的和谐发展。

With the rapid development of mobile communication technology and the increasing popularity intelligent terminal devices,mobile learning has manifested such characteristics as flexibility,convenience,and ubiquity that it has gradually become a lifestyle of modern people.While Chinese population is rapidly aging,the contradiction between the supply side and demand side for elderly education is becoming increasingly prominent.This paper proposes that exploring mobile learning could be one of the solutions to the problem in that it might facilitate the educational innovation,narrow the digital divide,enable more elderly people to access elderly education and improve their life quality,thus serving the end of promoting an active aging and harmonious social development.