Research On Mobile Learning For The Elderly Based On WeChat Platform

By the end of 2019,the proportion of the elderly who aged 60 and over in China’s total population has reached 18.1 percent,making the aging of the population a hot topic in the society.As an important part of the lifelong education system,education for the aged shoulders the arduous task of promoting active aging and stabilizing the society.Today,with the close combination of information technology and education,mobile learning technology and concept have profoundly changed the way of education and learning for the elderly and become a field that cannot be ignored.We Chat platform mobile learning because of its rich content,form convenience into the eyes of the elderly education research.At present,most of the research on the education of the aged focuses on the educational function and significance,and there is little research on the application of specific ways of mobile learning.The study of the elderly is characterized by entertainment,multilevel,practicability and variability.How to develop an information technology platform suitable for the elderly is a key issue to promote their active participation in learning and promote the development of education for the elderly.Based on the powerful information release and dissemination ability of the We Chat platform,this study focused on the learning problems of the elderly.Relying on the connective learning theory of and the education theory of the elderly,based on the law of education and learning for the elderly,this study constructed the mobile learning model of the elderly on We Chat platform and grasped the mobile learning trend of the elderly.I chose the thorough practice of elderly learners in the Nanchang Oldster University as the research object,through the questionnaire survey,understanding the elderly We Chat platform of mobile learning motivation,time,and way,content,effect and basic situation,analyzing them at the individual level,We Chat study platform construction level and social support level are the deep reason of learning disabilities.According to the practice survey,combining the concepts of lifelong education and education for the elderly,constructive suggestions and countermeasures are put forward from the aspects of personal conditions,We Chatplatform and social support.Through this research,we will actively explore new opportunities for the development of education for the aged in the information age and promote the construction and development of a learning society.