Adult Users’ Familiarisation with Graphical Interface Elements for Digital Competences Acquiring

According to “Adult Learning. It is never too late to learn” report, issued in 2006 by the Education Commission, the adult education provides the employability, their mobility through the acquisition of key competences required by a permanent changing society that promotes the social inclusion. Adult education is an important component of lifelong learning and in terms of computer use it targets the digital competencies acquisition. This objective achievement starts from the users’ familiarization with the specific elements of the graphical interfaces applications going to be acquired by them and this facilitates the easy learning. The paper aims at highlighting those issues facing adult users in acquisition of information and communication technology competences and the ways to remove these learning barriers.