Enhancing the digital skills of adult learners in the midst of pandemic: The case of the Second Chance School of Messolonghi

With the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the new quarantine, adult education has changed and entered the e-learning trajectory. Especially for the innovative institution of SDE, where the teaching until then was shaped for life in the presence of the trainees, started something technologically unprecedented that changed the life of the people and the daily life of the school, as we knew it. The purpose of this paper is to inform the educational community about the practices used in an adult school unit, in order to enhance the learners" digital skills with their existing equipment. The researchers surveyed through a digital questionnaire the technological equipment available to the trainees for attending distance learning in a modern and asynchronous way and examined the barriers to access and use of digital technology. Then, their teaching needs were explored and appropriate educational material was created, adapted to modern processes and learning environments.