Dear Ziko
there are several keys to the success that my colleague Vojtech Vesely is having with senior citizens. First, he carefully looks for motivated and talented senior citizens - we only accept those who have good knowledge of PC and Internet. We do not try to replace standard PC courses. Secondly, we have to devote enough time to them - we make sure that there is an elementary and an advanced course open to everyone. One person organizes the program, runs three courses a week and answers e-mails, which is almost a full-time job.
best regards
Vojtěch Dostál
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2015-01-16 12:31 GMT+01:00 Ziko van Dijk zvandijk@gmail.com:
Dear Vojtech,
Thank you for sharing your experiences; often people don't because writing a report is a lot of work.
If I understand it right, the key for learner's retention is: enough time and good teaching aids. I remember that WMDE in its 2011-2013 education programme did not provide teaching aids, and it did not want to invest more than three afternoons in senior citizens.
Please correct me if I got something wrong.
Kind regards Ziko
Am Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2015 schrieb Samir Elsharbaty :
Thank you for this helpful post, Vojtěch!
I like how you thought out of the box in terms of advertising and the idea of the project in general. Your post taught me a lot :D
Samir
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Tim Moritz Hector < timmoritzhector@t-online.de> wrote:
+1 thanks, Vojtěch, for sharing these interesting insights and congrats on your success with this!
Best Tim
Am 13.01.15 um 03:18 schrieb Asaf Bartov:
Very interesting report, Vojtěch! Thanks for sharing it.
A.On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Anna Koval akoval@wikimedia.org wrote:
Bravo, Vojtěch! :)
Thank you for sharing your experiences and your learnings on the Wikimedia blog.
It's exciting to see these successes with seniors in the Czech Republic.
Looking forward to seeing how the program develops, grows, and hopefully inspires others!
Anna :)
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Vojtěch Dostál < vojtech.dostal@wikimedia.cz> wrote:
Dear colleagues
let me draw your attention to my blog post about our progress in the senior citizen education program!
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/12/czech-senior-citizens-learn-to-edit/
cheers
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