Are you looking for support on how to integrate digital literacy into instruction? Check out this great resource developed by Rachel Riggs. This mLearning resource is a Wakelet that contains: a start-up survey to help you get to know what devices your learners are using, what they can do with technology, and what their goals are) and an action plan template.

Last week, the EdTech Center, Adobe, and Readability Matters unveiled an exciting new initiative and opportunities to get involved. Did you miss last week’s webinar? Check out the recording, slides, and resources below.  

Join us on November 13th at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for the 18th installment of our Distance Education Strategy Sessions. We'll hear from the Burlington English team on blended learning in remote times. Stay tuned for more details. 

The EdTech Center is committed to ensuring that our processes for developing and sharing innovation reflect a radical commitment to equity. In projects such as Equity in mLearning, we looked to Digital Promise’s report, “Designing a Process of Inclusive Innovation” for an overarching framework for authentically engaging underrepresented stakeholders at the earliest stages and shifting their roles to leaders, participants, and beneficiaries. The report details how to reimagine authority, decision-making, and risk in the context of education. R&D. 

Jen Vanek from the EdTech Center weighs in on the digital divide and the importance of addressing access issues in adult literacy programs. The technology gap has been the biggest challenge to teachers in the pandemic: “It’s really clear. A lot of households without internet, many of those learners are in adult literacy programs.”  

The new issue of Adult Literacy Education: The International Journal of Literacy, Language, and Numeracy published last week. This issue features research articles, a report from the field, and a viewpoint article, “Ten Actions to Build an Adult Basic Skills Development System That Is More Inclusive, Relevant, Efficient, and Sustained”. Also, be sure to read EdTech Center advisor David Rosen’s technology solutions article describing strategies and edtech resources to support engaging remote and distance instruction.

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.