Digital Empowerment of Education for Older Adults

Siwei Wang, Ph.D. in Education, is a senior lecturer at the Center for Learning Society and School of Social Work at Guangdong Open University (Guangdong Polytechnic Institute). She is a member of the Expert Committee of the Pension Service Industry of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and an expert member of the Children's Service Professional Committee of the National Civil Affairs Vocational Education and Teaching Steering Committee. She has presided over and participated in 15 teaching projects, and 9 research projects at the provincial and national levels (top 3), published 12 papers and 3 textbooks, among other significant contributions. She has won a prize of National Teaching Achievement Award, along with a first prize and a second prize of Guangdong Education and Teaching Achievement Award.Professor Sheying Chen received his Ph.D. and MSW from UCLA and is a tenured Professor of Public Administration at Pace University in New York. A Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts (2017) and founding director of the Centers for Social Work Study and Social Health Administration at Tsinghua University in Beijing (2016-2019), he has also served as a senior research fellow of Sino-American Relations and Cross-Strait Research at Tsinghua. He was Associate Provost (2010-2012) at Pace and previously Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Indiana University (Southeast). Prior to IU, Dr. Chen was Professor and Dean at University of Guam, overseeing Schools/Colleges of Business & Public Administration; Education; Health Sciences, Nursing & Social Work. He held tenure as Professor and Chair at the City University of New York (Staten Island) where he headed a large unit housing psychology, sociology, anthropology, social work, aging, disability studies, women's studies, and a number of interdisciplinary initiatives. He was a permanent faculty member of Sun Yat-sen University at Guangzhou from 1986 to 1992, where he served as a forerunner of China's rebuilt social work education and public policy research. Professor Chen is the Co-EIC for the Springer Book Series of International Perspectives on Aging.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Education for Older Adults.- Chapter 3. Digital Empowerment and Inclusion.- Chapter 4. The Building of a Chinese Model for Digital Elder Education.- Chapter 5. Guangdong and the Greater Bay Area.- Chapter 6. Guangdong Seniors University (GDOU School of Continuing Education).- Chapter 7. A System of Educational Policy Support for Aging with Opportunities in the Digital Society.- Chapter 8. An Empirical Study in Guangzhou (Canton).- Chapter 9. Major Findings from Field Research: A Synthesis for Theory and Practice.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.