유비쿼터스 미디어 환경에서 성공적 노화를 위한 협력학습 플랫폼 개발 = Development of Collaborative Learning Platform for Successful Aging in a Ubiquitous Media Environment

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As media environment changes, human society is facing the impending phenomenon of aging and in search for various solutions. Aging is an orderly aspect of the Creation, and successful aging is a journey of a persevering faith. Therefore, we need to look at the issue of aging society and prepare for it from a different angle: from the view of maturing faith more than just a problem solving. In this study, we re-conceptualized successful aging from Christian viewpoint, and positioned aged people as existential subjects who can liaison their experienced faith from the relationship with God. For the sake of the existential lives of the aged, we suggested a learning community based on faith community theory of Nelson, and developed collaborative learning platform to facilitate participation of those who are entering into their elderly years. We developed a collaborative learning platform based on the principles of 4C`s applying the universal design, and limited the scope to suggest a prototype. This study is conduced to see the aged people study collaborative learning platform as a prototype, developed under the principles of 4C`s aiming at a design for universal application, but it is also a meaningful experiment to see the aged people as subjects of the care as well as objects and give opportunities for them to participate in the community as responsible subjects. Besides, building a learning community based on informal networks can be alternative models for the education of the aged in faith community, and serve as a clue to the systemic execution of the essential mission of church. Given that condition, follow-on studies might well be proposed on the research of the factors that comprise sustainable learning community with practical cases where aged people participated in the learning community.