Digital Age-Friendly Learning Community (DAFLC)

How does the organization create an age-friendly digital learning community (DAFLC)?

By organizing educational processes in accordance with the assumptions of geragogy, taking into account the provision of seniors with digital competences necessary for learning

By creating a digital environment in which seniors can move safely, which they will know and how to use it.

In the DAFLC space, the staff of the organization also cooperates, exchanging experiences and knowledge.

Organizations can use publicly available resources on the Internet, using them in accordance with copyright law for their educational processes.

Various forms of work in a senior-friendly digital educational community that organizations use:

• study circles using online sources of knowledge,

• activating the participants of the learning process during stationary classes, through ICT tools,

• online groups, internet forums,

• blended learning, 

• e-learning.

Organizations can use these forms using more or less integrated digital platforms, e.g. Moodle, Google Workspace, Edmodo, Wakelet, and others.

Organization - as an organizer of educational services, should create a space for the implementation of development programs for seniors, based on the best practices and learning models of mature people.

It should develop programs based on analyzes and research on the current development needs of recipients. It should carry out activities raising the awareness of the society, especially seniors, about the importance of lifelong learning. 

It should take care of improving the learning systems of staff, professionals, with particular emphasis on personal, relational and pedagogical/geragogical competences needed to conduct lifelong learning processes of people in mature age.

It should take care of enabling and promoting the use of information and communication technologies in the learning process of seniors, creating and developing the DAFLC Digital Age-Friendly Learning Community for this purpose.