How “basic” is basic digital literacy for older adults? Insights from digital skills instructors

TY - JOUR

T1 - How “basic” is basic digital literacy for older adults? Insights from digital skills instructors

AU - Vercruyssen, Anina

AU - Schirmer, Werner

AU - Geerts, Nelly

AU - Mortelmans, Dimitri

N1 - Funding Information: This article was written on behalf of the Digital Ageing consortium. The authors want to thank the other members of the consortium: Ignace Glorieux, An Jacobs, Nico De Witte, Ilse Mariën, Bram Spruyt, Cora Van Leeuwen, Jorrit Campens, and Nelly Geerts. The authors also want to thank the instructors participating in the study and the participants of the peer debriefing session for their valuable feedback. Funding Information: The argument of this article is supported by empirical evidence collected through one particular sub-study within the context of a larger multidisciplinary research project on the digital inclusion of older adults in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. The overarching project investigates several aspects of digital inclusion of older adults (digital inequalities among older adults, digital skills acquisition and support, social life with digital means, and digital ageism) and makes use of qualitative interviews with older internet users/non-users and digital skills instructors, focus groups with older adults and warm experts, as well as large-scale quantitative data sets and participant observations in other sub-studies.

PY - 2023

Y1 - 2023

KW - digital inclusion and exclusion

KW - digital literacy

KW - digital skills acquisition

KW - digital skills instructors

KW - older adults

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85173001180&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3389/feduc.2023.1231701

DO - 10.3389/feduc.2023.1231701

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85173001180

VL - 8

JO - Frontiers in Education

JF - Frontiers in Education

SN - 2504-284X

M1 - 1231701

ER -