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CORRECTION article

Front. Educ., 29 November 2023
Sec. Digital Education
This article is part of the Research Topic Insights in Older People’s Digital Literacies View all 6 articles

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

  • 1Center for Population, Family and Health, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2Department of Sociology, TOR Research group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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

by Vercruyssen, A., Schirmer, W., Geerts, N., and Mortelmans, D. (2023). Front. Educ. 8:1231701. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1231701

In the published article, there was an error in affiliation 1. Instead of “Center for Population, Health and Family, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium”, it should be “Center for Population, Family and Health, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium”.

In the published article, there was an error in the author list, and author Nelly Geerts was erroneously excluded. The corrected author list appears below.

Anina Vercruyssen, Werner Schirmer, Nelly Geerts, and Dimitri Mortelmans

In the published article, there was an error in the Author contributions statement. The contributions of Nelly Geerts were omitted due to their erroneous exclusion from the author list. The correct Author contributions statement appears below.

Author contributions

AV: conceptualization, data analysis, writing—original draft, and funding acquisition. WS: data collection, writing—original draft, and funding acquisition. NG: conceptualization, data collection, and writing—review and editing. DM: writing—review and editing, funding acquisition, and project supervision. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.

The authors apologize for these errors and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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Keywords: digital literacy, older adults, digital skills instructors, digital inclusion and exclusion, digital skills acquisition

Citation: Vercruyssen A, Schirmer W, Geerts N and Mortelmans D (2023) Corrigendum: How “basic” is basic digital literacy for older adults? Insights from digital skills instructors. Front. Educ. 8:1333929. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1333929

Received: 06 November 2023; Accepted: 14 November 2023;
Published: 29 November 2023.

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Copyright © 2023 Vercruyssen, Schirmer, Geerts and Mortelmans. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

*Correspondence: Anina Vercruyssen, anina.vercruyssen@uantwerpen.be

Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.