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IN THIS ISSUE: 

Project Updates: Digital US - Survey

Events + Announcements: Distance Education Strategies & Solutions: Accessibility Basics - Remote ESOL Research Initiative

What We're Reading: A brief history of how racism manifests itself in design and how we can learn from it. 

Project Updates

Digital US - Survey
Digital US is partnering with Upskill to understand employer needs for digital skills and investments they are making in digital skills and inclusion. Throughout 2020, UpSkill America engaged with employers to learn how the global pandemic and heightened attention to systemic racism affected their companies and spurred them to find new and better ways to operate. Please join us in disseminating this survey to help us learn from a wide array of businesses how 2020 events are influencing:
  • The types of skills needed by frontline workers,
  • Employer-funded education and training programs and other workplace supports for frontline and entry-level workers, and
  • Strategies to enhance equity and inclusion in the workplace.

Events & Announcements

Distance Education Strategies & Solutions:
Accessibility Basics
Implementing basic accessibility principles not only helps ensure that individuals with disabilities and those who use assistive technology can fully participate in distance learning; it also often improves usability for all learners. In this webinar, Dr. Melissa Helquist, Director of the SLCC Community Writing Center and Professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, will explore the fundamentals of accessibility—including creating accessible documents and delivering audio and video content—to help make accessibility a more central part of your distance education program. 
 
Tune in next Friday, January 22, at 1:00 Eastern for this webinar -  one of a series of webinars from ProLiteracy and the EdTech Center@World Education. 
Remote ESOL Research Initiative
The EdTech Center is seeking information about adult ESOL programs known to have employed innovative strategies and resources to support remote ESOL instruction. This research initiative responds to a growing demand by immigrant adults for remote English learning opportunities by documenting and disseminating promising, technology-enabled, remote ESOL instruction and support services. The research will identify key considerations for scaling innovations in anticipation of comprehensive immigration reform likely to include a language requirement for citizenship. 
 
By June 2021, the project will publish several resources, including: case studies highlighting critical features of effective technology-enabled ESOL instruction, examples of exemplar resources, and a policy brief identifying implications for funding, policy, and practice.
 
If you know of ESOL programs known to do innovative work, please either nominate them by completing the short form below, or forward the link to them. We would be very grateful for your support of this effort.

What We're Reading

A brief history of how racism manifests itself in design and how we can learn from it. 
In this article, Amrutha Palaniyappan discusses how the technology-related design industry has contributed to racial biases in consumer products. She also highlights examples of racism in tech design, such as a Microsoft AI chatbot tweeting racial slurs, and speech recognition systems being less capable of identifying words spoken by Black users.
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