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of traditional writing and reading. This project provides participants with tools they
need to integrate into the new community while also acquiring digital skills.

5.2.2 BEST PRACTICE: DIGITISE THAT
Digitise that is a project that targets educators over fifty to improve their digital com-
petences. The goal is to equip educators in this age group with digital skills that they
will be able to bring back to their classrooms, and they include skills in resources like
google suite, Prezi, Canva, Quizlet, and Loom, to name a few. The skills learned would
prepare educators to work with vulnerable populations that have higher dropout rates
in adult education. Through implementing these tools, educators would be able to
communicate with their students, provide them with feedback in an engaging way, and
support the vulnerable students’ learning. This practice would be useful in that it
would provide already highly experienced teachers with tools to help them better
connect with vulnerable students, however, there is the drawback that many vulnera-
ble students also struggle with digital competency, therefore the added digital element
to the already challenging learning environment may be overwhelming for this target
group.

5.2.3 BEST PRACTICE: CHANGING OF ADULT EDUCATION
The project Changing of adult education -- Internationalization, digitalization and de-
mographic change as a challenge in Europe aims to enhance the teaching practices of
educators in the Volkshochschulen. The practice strived to improve the quality of
teaching and skills of the educators by having them participate in various workshops
where they learned teaching practices. This project was especially helpful for the vul-
nerable student group because it aimed to support educators that work in second
chance, integration and German as a second language classrooms by teaching them
how to integrate digital skills into their classrooms. An upside of this project is that it
supports educators working directly with the vulnerable students, but one downside is
that the outcomes of this practice seems to be a bit vague in that some of the out-
comes addressed language proficiency of educators while other outcomes addressed
digital literacy.

5.3 BEST PRACTICE EXAMPLES FROM ROMANIA

In terms of good practices, the Romanian partner especially focused on transversal
competences and skill to support and improve the use of digital resources such as
good planning ability which is actually a pedagogical skill, creativity, time management
skills and an appropriate mind set:

5.3.1 GOOD PLANNING ABILITY
A good planning ability will always help teachers identify more easily when and how to
use an app in online teaching, how to adapt their use to the students digital skill with
special attention on 50 + learners or learners from other vulnerable groups, how to