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U3A Online Information |
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draft versions. Please see the relevant publications directly before quoting.
Text Analysis: U3AOnline focus group
Rick Swindell and Peter Grimbeek - Griffith University
Jan Heffernan- QUT
2004 Text Analysis of full transcripts of answers provided by nine U3AOnline participants.Nine "mini biographies" outlining some characteristics of U3A Online participants
Rick Swindell and Peter Grimbeek - Griffith University
Cate Russell - U3A Online
2003 findings from extensive email "interviews" with nine participants of U3A Online coursesU3A Online: enriching the lives of older members of a multicultural society
Rick Swindell - Griffith University; Leslie Dale U3A Online
Paper presented at Ageing Well: The Multicultural Challenge International Symposium 9-10 October 2003, Melbourne, Australia.U3A Online: a virtual university of the third age for isolated older people.
Rick Swindell - Griffith University
International Journal of Lifelong Education 21(5), 414-429. 2002.Antecedents to Internet learning: Illuminating the characteristics of older online learners.
Rick Swindell and Peter Grimbeek - Griffith University
Submitted for review for 10th Annual International Conference on Post-Compulsory Education and Training, December 2-4; Gold Coast. 2002.Technology and the over 65s? Get a life.
Rick Swindell - Griffith University
Social Alternatives, Vol 20, 17-23. 2001.Later life learning in Australia – the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of U3As.
Paper for the 1998 congress of the AIUTA.
Jack McDonell AM - Honorary Assistant Secretary, the U3A Network-Victoria Inc.
Studieren im Spateren Leben (Learning in Later Life), Deutscher Studien, Verlag, Weinheim 2000.Half a million dollars a year: voluntarism within New Zealand Universities of the Third Age.
Rick Swindell - Griffith University
New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning 28(1) 23-31. 2000.A U3A without walls: Using the Internet to reach out to isolated older people.
Rick Swindell - Griffith University
Education and Ageing 15(2), 251-263. 2000.Interactive online courses by and for older people.
Rick Swindell - Griffith University and Jean Thompson - Third Age Trust
Proceedings of the XXth Congress of the AIUTA. Quebec, Canada (14-16 September). 2000.Background to U3A Online.
Dorothy Braxton - U3A ACT
This paper acknowledges the political background and developmental processes that led to the development of U3AOL. The paper was a foreword to the comprehensive evaluation report of the initial stage of the program's operation.Older learners online. An evaluation of Internet courses for isolated older persons.
Swindell, R. & Vassella, K. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No.431 103) 1999.New directions, opportunities and challenges for New Zealand U3As.
Rick Swindell - Griffith University
New Zealand Journal of Adult Learning. 27(1) 41-57. 1999.U3As in Australia and New Zealand: society's $4 million bonanza.
Rick Swindell - Griffith University
Comparative Education 35(2) 235-247. 1999.Go-getter, hamstrung and yesteryear managers of older Australian’s leisure-time organisations.
Rick Swindell and Claire Mayhew - Griffith University
Australasian Journal on Ageing, 17(1), 29-32. 1998.An International Perspective of the University of the Third Age
Rick Swindell - Griffith University and Jean Thompson - Third Age Trust
Educational Gerontology, 21(5), 429-447. 1995Learning in the Third Age.
Leslie Dale - Manningham U3A
The International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. D. Aspin, J. Chapman, M.Hatton & Y. Sawano (Eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2001.
Activities for older people in the city of Manningham.
Jack Darmody and Leslie Dale - Manningham U3A
Unpublished report.The Amazing Universities of The Third Age In China Today (2002)
Jean Thompson - Third Age Trust
Unpublished report Compiled from documents issued at the AIUTA Geneva Congress in October 2002 by the CPPCC, (the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) and the CAUA (the China Association of Universities for the Aged)