New! Transforming Distance Education Course Now Available |
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The Transforming Distance Education course is now live on our site! The free and open course offers four learning modules developed by the EdTech Center @ World Education with support from the US Department of Education’s Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education (OCTAE) to provide timely, high-quality professional development on distance and blended learning. The course draws on content based on over a decade of known practitioner expertise and past research as well as recent research on innovations unearthed since the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more about the research that went into the course development as well as the course navigation, topics and badges by listening to last Tuesday's webinar recording here.
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EdTech Maker Space — Mobile Leveled Library
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Last week, CrowdED Learning shared the results of a recent, innovative professional development project run for 6 weeks in July and August—the EdTech Maker Space. As part of this project, 44 adult educators nationwide built their skills using edtech tools including Quizlet, Google Forms, and Wakelet while creating openly licensed resources using content from a mobile-friendly leveled reading library. The result? A mobile-friendly leveled reading library of 345 stories that includes over 1,000 shareable, customizable resources. Check out this Wakelet that provides links to the Wakelet leveled library, a mobile app version of the library, and an instructor resource library that contains easy access links to all of the teacher-created resources.
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Inclusive Talent Marketplace Report |
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The EdTech Center advised a new report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, a Digital US partner, on Building a More Inclusive Talent Marketplace: Increasing Opportunity Through Community and Business-Led Initiatives. The report shares efforts by the Foundation to make hiring less biased and more inclusive by orienting hiring practices on skills instead of proxies or pedigrees and around a more holistic understanding of opportunity seekers’ unique barriers and strengths. The report covers three focus areas: Barriers to Employment, Labor Market Design for Opportunity Populations, Recommendations for Addressing Barriers to Employment.
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Distance Education Strategy Sessions
to Resume October 9th
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After a short break, our Distance Education Strategy Sessions are back! Join the EdTech Center next Friday at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for the 17th installment of our Distance Education Strategy Sessions. Next week, we'll hear from the Nashville Public Libray and learn about their "ecosystem of support" model, including the professional development resources they developed, community offerings and how they work together. We'll also look at the newly released Transforming Distance Education course and the lessons related to this week's topic. Stay tuned for more details! |
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Jobs for the Future and Tyton Partners Market Report |
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The new landscape scan, Career Navigation Technology 2020 by JFF and Tyton Partners delves into the dynamics shaping the career navigation technology market, identifying innovations, trends, areas of opportunity, and tech companies leading the way.
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Best Practices In Addressing Digital Divides |
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Hanover Research offers this useful guide listing concrete steps you can take to support access to online learning. Strategies cover use of low-tech options for course design, support of access and use of mobile technologies, digital skills development, and construction of remote orientations to learning. Though it is written with a postsecondary audience in mind, it is very useful for other adult learning contexts.
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