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IN THIS ISSUE: 

Project Updates: New 21 CLEO Blog Post

Events + Announcements: Distance Education Strategy Session - Science of Adult Learning

What We're Reading: APEC Closing the Digital Skills Gap Report

In Case You Missed It: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Videos

Project Updates

New 21 CLEO Blog Post
This is our first in a series of blog posts where we’ll share personas we’ve generated from talking to working learners through our research on employer-supported learning. In this blog post we describe Alimayu. This persona focuses on the experiences of a college-educated retail worker learning English. He is an independent learner who desires a future career in information systems. He works two jobs, often 16 hours a day so he has little extra time for learning, yet he persists toward his goal.

Events & Announcements

Science of Adult Learning:
Strategies to Support Adults’ Learner Variability
Digital Promise’s Learner Variability Project just launched an evidence-based Adult Learner Model that may be used to improve instructional strategies and tech-enabled learning products for adult learners, from basic to higher education and workforce training. The model is built on a whole learner framework of adult literacies, cognition, social-emotional learning, and learner background—all of which research shows are essential factors of learning.

Join guests Medha Tare and Sarah Cacicio from ETC partner Digital Promise on February 12, 2021 for our Distance Education Strategy Session, where they will highlight tools and strategies from the model within a distance learning context.

What We're Reading

APEC Closing the Digital Skills Gap Report
The APEC Closing the Digital Skills Gap Forum, an initiative overseen by the U.S. Department of Labor, has brought together over 400 stakeholders and partners, including World Education and the Digital US coalition, to collaboratively work towards building digital skills, readiness and resilience in APEC economies. Written in partnership with LinkedIn and Burning Glass Technologies, the report shares insights to better understand supply and demand of digital skills and related skills gaps. It also lays out a common definition of digital skills, sets aspirational targets, and details APEC-wide actions on a multi-stakeholder basis to closing the digital skills gap and achieve lifelong employability.

In Case You Missed It

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Videos
The Adult Literacy Research Center at Georgia State University has produced a collection of videos on various coronavirus related topics ranging from how to avoid infection to talking with kids about the "new normal". The videos are available from beginning literacy through 9th-grade reading levels and were analyzed using VisibleThread Readability software.
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