Research on the Acceptability of Short-Video Learning for the Future Elderly in the Context of Mobile Internet

Because of the rapid aging of the world's population, the educational resources available to the future elderly are expected to become increasingly stretched, while their educational needs will continue to rise. The development of the mobile Internet will, therefore, be an important breakthrough in our attempts to solve this problem. In the context of mobile Internet, this research was meant to probe the extent to which elderly people in the future are likely to accept short-video learning that uses IBM SPSS Statistics26 software by analyzing the correlation between influencing factors and acceptability, based on the collected data from quantitative questionnaires (124 copies). The results show that the future elderly will remain neutral and will neither accept nor reject learning through short videos. What we have found is that the main factor affecting the future of online learning for the elderly is unskilled use of smartphones. The most important thing for the future elderly is to familiarize themselves with the content of what they are going to learn and the cost of the learning time involved. The research results deepen our insight in the attitudes of the future elderly with regard to learning through short videos, and may be used as a foundation for the design and development of short-video learning platforms for them.