Digital fitness

Digital Fit

The Digital Fit training program aims to prepare trainers for the unique challenges of teaching older persons. This advanced training course offers a specialized upgrade for trainers in the niche of education a rapidly growing target group of older persons who is very heterogeneous in terms of their prior knowledge and educational needs. These include challenges, such as the need to combine the didactic tools of geragogy (“pedagogy of old age”) and the subject-specific didactic aspects of IT training. The course started in 2017. The course is supported by Ministry of Social Affairs. The target group is adult educators and program developers specializing in computer training for senior citizens. The course has 60 teaching units including an introductory and information event, three days of attendance, six webinars, in between, online phases on Moodle and practical project in self-organization. It has a cost of 100 euros with special price subsidized by the Ministry of Social Affairs, excluding meals.