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Project Updates

World Education partners with Adobe on
Readability and Digital Literacy

The EdTech Center @ World Education has partnered with Adobe and Readability Matters to explore how text personalization can improve readability in digital texts and literacy for all ages and abilities.


As remote work and remote learning become the new normal, being able to effectively engage with and read digital documents is now a necessity. In working with Adobe and Readability Matters, we are leading research to uncover how text personalization and user controlled type can empower learners and support better literacy outcomes around the world.

This partnership builds on the work and research of the EdTech Center @ World Education on literacy and digital learning, as well as Adobe's recent rollout of Liquid Mode, a new tool in the free Adobe Acrobat Reader app that improves readability on mobile. In the next few months, we'll also be piloting other connected resources to support educators and learners in making use of these free tools in their programming.   

Events & Announcements

Readability for All Webinar
TODAY @ 2PM EST

The EdTech Center @ World Education has partnered with Adobe and Readability Matters to bring you this webinar on readability in digital texts and literacy. We’ll introduce readability and why it matters and share promising tools for supporting enhanced, personalized readability in digital texts for learners. We'll also show examples of how you can use these tools with content and articles from  The Change Agent. More details coming soon and in the meantime, check out our two-post blog series from the spring on Readability Features & Technology for Better Reading in case you missed it!

ProLiteracy Distance Education
Strategies and Solutions Webinar
TODAY @ 1PM EST

Today at 1:00 PM EST, Sara, Nicole and Caitlin will share how they created two YouTube channels: Literacy Pittsburgh English Class and Family Literacy Storytime. They will discuss why they decided to use YouTube for instruction, how they shoot and promote the videos, and how they helped their “actors” overcome nervousness. They’ll also reveal how their videos have increased Literacy Pittsburgh’s profile in their community, across the country, and around the world.
Personal and Workplace Success Skills (PWSS) Stipend
Are you looking for high-quality resources to help program participants improve their Personal and Workplace Success Skills (PWSS)? Would you benefit from guidance and support to integrate Personal and Workplace Success Skills into your program? The National College Transition Network (NCTN) is seeking instructors, college and career navigators and coaches in adult education, workforce development and community college programs. Incorporate a PWSS Library resource into instruction or advising/coaching and document your experiences for case studies that will be included in the Library to illustrate ways the resource can be used. Receive customized consultation with NCTN staff to identify PWSS resources that align with your program design and format and participants’ goals. If selected to participate, you will commit to incorporating PWSS resources into your programming during the winter/spring of 2021.

In Case You Missed It

Transforming Distance Education Course
Available Now

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 the launch webinar recording here.

Learning Management Systems
Needs & Use Survey

LMS Needs & Use Survey: Please respond to our survey on the challenges, experiences and wins adult education and workforce programs have had in purchasing and using Learning Management Systems to bring mobile learning and career navigation services to adult learners, and especially those with lower digital literacy. Through the “Equity in mLearning” project funded by the WES Mariam Assefa Fund, the EdTech Center is partnering with non-profits and employers on an ambitious effort to ensure all immigrants and refugees in the U.S. have access to a digital platform that offers free learning content, referrals to learning and career opportunities, portable records, and other supports for economic mobility.

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