Open Social-Shared Animated GIFs for Peer-to-Peer Teaching and Learning

In the open-shared teaching and learning space, the complexity of the shared learning contents vary. These range from stand-alone items and digital learning objects to full learning sequences and sets of resources. One humble object is the animated GIF, lightweight motion images used in graphical user interfaces (GUIs), expressive memes and commentary, emoticons, and other applications. Animated GIFs are fairly easy to create; they may be integrated into learning documents (handouts, slideshows, articles) and other objects, and it plays offline (and without the need for any downloadable player). This work involves an analysis of some available animated GIFs for education in social imagery collections. Based on findings, this work explores the viability of animated GIFs for various open-shared learning applications globally and some potential strategies and tactics, given real-world limits.

For Children in and out of Class During a Pandemic

In a pandemic, when schools have either closed, gone “blended” or “hybrid” (part-in-person and part-online), or gone fully online, teachers have to master online teaching quickly. At these moments, various online and published resources are referred to and used as guides. Some are willing to offer open-shared learning resources on the Social Web. This work involves an environmental scan of open-shared learning resources for pre-K12 and K12 on (1) an online teaching repository/referatory, (2) slideshow-sharing site, and (3) a social video sharing site. This includes bottom-up thematic coding of the journalistic literature (of COVID-19 and children), a review of the available recent open learning resources, and analytical observations about how to improve the available contents.

Older Adults as Virtual Subject Matter Experts in COVID Graduate Education

COVID-19 has further illuminated the need for educational approaches in gerontology that are person-centered and experiential. Ideally, this includes in-person experiences with students and older adults. Through their classroom participation as subject matter experts in aging, older adults share their personal experiences, and react to gerontological theories and ideas. Shared learning offers a platform for exploration of shared humanity, so that older adults are not seen as the “other”, but “us”. This prepares a generation of gerontologists to identify and reject ongoing ageism, again highlighted by the pandemic. COVID-19 has also challenged educators to offer these experiential opportunities. In this presentation we will outline how older adults from a Continuing Care Retirement Community participated virtually in a graduate course. We will discuss how their virtual involvement was structured, how their real-time COVID experiences were integrated, and share feedback from older adult participants and students on their shared learning experiences.

10.I. Workshop: Lessons from funding programmes for the development and testing of new care and payment models

To keep health care sustainable while ensuring that patients receive the best possible care, there is a need to find suitable ways of organising and structuring health care that are better applicable to for example the treatment of non-communicable diseases and multimorbidity. Improving coordination processes across different health and social care actors is crucial and as pressures on health systems have mounted, there has been increasing interest in how different methods of delivering or paying for healthcare can help in achieving overall health system goals. Some countries have set up specific ‘Innovation funds' to support the testing of new care and payment models. In this workshop we will have a closer look at how such dedicated funding programmes can be used as a tool to foster this particular type of innovation. This is especially valuable for participants who are interested in the initial or further development of such funding streams. The workshop will have the format of a regular workshop and will start with four presentations followed by ample time for an interactive discussion on specific subtopics or questions raised by the audience. Key messages This workshop will allow for cross country learning and evaluation of funding programmes that invest in new care and payment models and create opportunities for shared learning and collaboration. This workshop will also draw more attention towards current developments on how new care and payment models can be developed, invested in and implemented.