Welcome to another edition of ETCetera, bringing you the latest on the EdTech field at large. In this issue you'll see how our hard work supporting our partners, and our work in the XPRIZE competition is paying off big time. You can also see highlights from our recent trip to the COABE 2019 conference in New Orleans, and also what presentations will be doing at the CIES conference soon.

COABE 2019 Highlights from New Orleans

Thank you to our partners and supporters for another great year at COABE! In case you missed us, we launched our WorkforceEdTech.org tech tools repository, shared our new report on national field testing of tech tools, heard from our institute for  Innovating Distance Education & Adult Learning (IDEAL) consortium members on best practices and learnings from their work, unveiled the strategy and research design of our 21st Century Learning Ecosystems Opportunities project and so much more. We look forward to sharing highlights and distilling key learnings with you all over the next coming weeks. Stay tuned!

The EdTech Center is thrilled to announce that alongside our edtech partners Cell-Ed, Workbay and Wizenoze, we won the Schmidt Futures $1B Wage Gain Challenge run by Jobs For the Future for Schmidt Futures at ASU-GSV. Starting with just a call or text, Cell-Ed Works brings workers a world of learning, a career coach, a job matching service, and a private support hotline to the palm of their hand. Cell-Ed Works aims to provide mobile-first career pathways to 1M more by 2021.

World Education is honored to be a milestone award recipient in the national Adult Literacy XPRIZE Communities Competition. If you have been following our media during the past few months, you know that our team has been working hard to get the word out about the potential these apps have for adult learners. Team World Ed is building on this success and continues to build a community of educators and leaders to enable adults to improve their English language and literacy skills using their smartphones.  Read our press release and view our team page to find out how you can support our mission!

The EdTech Center is headed to this year’s Comparative International Education Society (CIES) conference on April 14-18, 2019, in San Francisco, California! This is our first year attending with our colleagues at Bantwana, JSI and World Education, Inc. and we’re thrilled. Check us out at one of our sessions below or come by the World Education table at booth 9 and say hi in person!

Panelists:

• Dr. Jen Vanek: Director of Digital Learning and Research, EdTech Center @ World Education
• Dr. Prema Nedungadi, Amrita Learning
• Meghan Rodriguez, ESOL instructor, Bunker Hill Community College
• Kathryn Devenport, AmritaCREATE,
• Meghan Rodriguez, ESOL instructor, Bunker Hill Community College
• Vinod Lobo, Learning Upgrade