The THIRD READING AGE is the ERASMUS+ co-funded project aimed to contribute to increasing accessibility to new communication technologies for older adults and develop the reading culture among citizens aged 60+. The project focuses on developing competences of educators and library staff working with older adults so they can adapt their teaching to their local context and learner needs. The project intends to develop new educational material and resources to support activation of older adults in the digital space.

Online Reading Curriculum for Older Adults: How to Become a Digital Reader
The Online Reading Curriculum is aimed at facilitating, encouraging and re-thinking reading for older adults using new technologies. The main output objective is to increase accessibility to new communication technologies for older adults and develop the reading culture among citizens aged 60+.

The Curriculum will develop senior's competences in:
• basics of using e-books and their possibilities,
• running and maintaining a creative online blog,
• designing an e-reader club.

The documents are available here:
Online Reading Curriculum for Older Adults: How to Become a Digital Reader in ENGLISH
Online Reading Curriculum for Older Adults: How to Become a Digital Reader in CZECH

E-reading Community Portal: The Digital Reading Age
The e-reading community portal is an open-source online learning portal. It features activities and tools in 6 different languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, English, Italian and Latvian).

Activities are divided into 6 major categories as:
• Use of digital technologies
• Critical reading
• Communicating and debating
• Book clubs
• Critical writing
• Guest authors
All activities withing each category are also available for self-directed learning for any (senior) citizen in a need developing competences of using digital tools, participating in reading clubs, or using national e-reading resources. The portal provides a space for senior learners to connect at the national level to form online (reading) communities.

More about E-reading Community Portal and activities can be found here: Reading Portal

Training Programme for Adult Educators and Library Staff: Senior Learner Manual
Senior Learner Manual was created in order to support the delivery of Online Reading Curriculum for Older Adults and E-reading Community Portal and ensure a quality training outcome is achieved. This training programme is set as a package of learning manual and handbook. It places a significant emphasis on working with non-traditional learning approaches with the full consent of the digital media in its use. It explores the different roles that educators are required to adopt when working in these environments. .

The Senior Learner manual is here:
Online Reading Curriculum for Older Adults: How to Become a Digital Reader in ENGLISH
Training Programme for Adult Educators and Library Staff: Senior Learner Manual in CZECH


For more details on The THIRD READING AGE goals and final products visit project website: The THIRD READING AGE
or
explore all online resources directly at E-reading Community Portal

Facebook page: The THIRD READING AGE