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This open access book attends to the co-creation of digital public services for ageing societies. Increasingly public services are provided in digital form; their uptake however remains well below expectations. In particular, amongst older adults the need for public services is high, while at the same time the uptake of digital services is lower than the population average. One of the reasons is that many digital public services (or e-services) do not respond well to the life worlds, use contexts and use practices of its target audiences. This book argues that when older adults are involved in the process of identifying, conceptualising, and designing digital public services, these services become more relevant and meaningful. The book describes and compares three co-creation projects that were conducted in two European cities, Bremen and Zaragoza, as part of a larger EU-funded innovation project. The first part of the book traces the origins of co-creation to three distinct domains, in which co-creation has become an equally important approach with different understandings of what it is and entails: (1) the co-production of public services, (2) the co-design of information systems and (3) the civic use of open data. The second part of the book analyses how decisions about a co-creation project’s governance structure, its scope of action, its choice of methods, its alignment with strategic policies and its embedding in existing public information infrastructures impact on the process and its results. The final part of the book identifies key challenges to co-creation and provides a more general assessment of what co-creation may achieve, where the most promising areas of application may be and where it probably does not match with the contingent requirements of digital public services. Contributing to current discourses on digital citizenship in ageing societies and user-centric design, this book is useful for researchers and practitioners interested in co-creation, public sector innovation, open government, ageing and digital technologies, citizen engagement and civic participation in socio-technical innovation.

Public Administration --- Public Policy --- Demography --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) --- Social Policy --- Population and Demography --- Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet) --- Co-creation --- Civic engagement --- Open data --- Digital public service --- Geron-technology --- Digital innovation --- MobileAge --- Open Access --- Public administration --- Population & demography --- Information retrieval --- Internet searching --- Political economy --- Social & ethical issues --- Central / national / federal government policies

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Globalization --- Development Studies --- Public Policy --- Comparative Politics --- International Relations --- Politics and Religion --- Migration Policy --- Peace and Conflict Studies --- Migration --- Entwicklung --- Bildung --- Entwicklungszusammenarbeit --- Studierendenmigration --- Kolumbien --- Georgien --- Ghana --- Indonesien --- Palästina --- Open Access --- KAAD --- Katholischer Akademischer Ausländerdienst --- Public administration --- Religion & politics

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This open access book focuses on how the design and use of innovative learning environments can evolve as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are adapting their practices, the challenges that these changes pose, and the effective evaluation of these changes. The book reports on emerging research in learning environments, with a particular emphasis on how teachers are transitioning from traditional classrooms to innovative learning environments. It offers a significant evidence-based global assessment of current research in this field by designers, architects, educators and policy makers. It presents twenty-five cutting-edge projects from researchers in fifteen countries. Thanks to the book’s comprehensive international perspective, which combines theory and practice in a single publication, readers will gain a wealth of new insights. ; This open access book focuses on the design of learning environments that change as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are adapting their practices, the challenges these changes present and effective evaluation of these changes. The book reports on emerging research in learning environment developments, with a particular emphasis on how teachers are transitioning from traditional classrooms to innovative learning environments and assesses the effectiveness of these learning environments. This book is the first ever evidence-based global assessment of current research in this field. Readers will gain new insight through its comprehensive international perspective that brings practice and theory together in one publication.

Learning & Instruction --- Administration, Organization and Leadership --- Educational Policy and Politics --- Teaching and Teacher Education --- International and Comparative Education --- Education --- Organization and Leadership --- global initiatives in use of school spaces --- innovative learning spaces --- school design and use --- teacher transition --- change and risk --- inhabiting design --- evaluation of learning spaces --- research into innovative school design --- pedagogy and space --- better school design --- teaching in innovative spaces --- Open Access --- Teaching skills & techniques --- Cognition & cognitive psychology --- Educational administration & organization --- Educational strategies & policy --- Teacher training