Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and largest communications operator in Russia "Rostelecom" have realized a joint project – educational textbook "The ABC on Internet" which pensioners will be able to use as teach-yourself book on computer literacy as well as teachers during computer courses for pensioners.
At the moment "The ABC on Internet" is being tested in Bryansk, Tula, Volgograd, Vologda and Stavropol by Pension Fund of the Russian Federation and "Rostelecom" within the framework of specially organized computer courses. Also the test is conducted in Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast where bodies of social security of the population of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast have equipped and provided 128 computer classes specifically for those purposes.
During the courses teachers will present educational textbook to invited pensioners, who will be able to study it in all details and check it in practice. Also pensioners will be able to express their comments and suggestions for improvement of textbook.
Computer science teachers, educationalists, psychologists and gerontologists took part in the "ABC of the Internet" development. Textbook takes into account the perception of complex information by people of the older generation.
Detailed information on the computer structure, rules of work with text files, video and audio recordings, photos, information storage is expounded in an accessible form for the older people in the textbook. A large section of textbook is devoted to obtaining skills in the web search engines, features of the communication in social networks, Skype and email, as well as safety precautions while using the Internet.
In the "The ABC on Internet" special attention is given to explanation of how and where to get the state and municipal services in electronic form via the Internet. Obtaining public services without leaving home is especially important and demanded by the older and disabled people. The textbook contains a large list of useful online-resources for the pensioner with a detailed description and Internet address: from site gosuslugi.ru to the search engines for necessary medicines at the lowest prices.
All materials of the textbook are also available on specially designed portal www.azbukainterneta.ru. The portal is designed for different groups of users: both for those who would like to train their loved ones to work in a network and teachers of computer courses for people of the older generation. A block of materials "For teachers" contains guidelines for teaching computer literacy, presentations and visual materials to the chapters of the course "The ABC on Internet", advices on classes equipment, information on the features of teaching citizens of the older generation, description of special exercises for the development of motility and many other useful materials.
Educational textbook and the portal "The ABC on Internet" were developed within the framework of agreement between "Rostelecom" and the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation on cooperation in providing computer to literacy pensioners that was signed on 22 January 2014. The purposes of cooperation are facilitating access for pensioners to obtain public services in electronic form via the Internet and improving quality of life through teaching computer literacy and work in the Internet.
Pension Fund and Rostelecom which have released "The ABC on Internet" as a charitable project, are ready to provide the rights of using textbook to all subjects of the Russian Federation and to representatives of any specialized courses without violation of integrity and copyright.
It is also worth noting that 300 textbooks were sent to veteran organizations of federal city of Sevastopol today.