New cooperative learning opportunities for older learners

Rick Swindell

Paper prepared for the Web4seniors 5th Learning in Later Life Conference, October 4-5, 2007, Ulm University, Germany. Paper discusses examples of constituency research in which U3A members carry out research 'with' (rather than the usual 'on') older people. The paper then discusses how the Internet has opened up new possibilities for international cooperation such as wikis and FlashMeeting.