Distance Education Strategy Sessions:
Building Open Learning Resource Repositories |
|
|
|
Join us today at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for our 19th Distance Education Strategy Session. Learn how one region in South Carolina has worked to develop effective practices building learning resource libraries at scale. First, Mary Gaston, Technical Assistance Specialist for SCAE, will share how her team worked to rapidly find, create, and share online learning content in the wake of COVID-19 school closures for their region, and over time has developed a coordinated process for making these resources readily available to educators across the state. Then, Kathy Woodson (SC Adult Ed Training Specialist), Kathy LaBegue (Greenville Lifelong Learning Instructor), Anita Wilson (TAN 1 Curriculum Specialist), and Mickey Cox (Oconee Adult Ed Instructor), will share how they have been able to take these reusable learning resources and implement them into their instruction. You will leave with lots of ideas for how collaboration can help you and your colleagues effectively coordinate the curation, creation, and sharing of content to meet the needs of your learners.
|
|
|
|
Future-focus for the NRS:
Comments from the Field and Advocacy for Change |
|
|
Where is the future of adult education performance reporting going? Hear what leading experts who submitted comments to the US Department of Education Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) recently had to say- as well as the OCTAE response. This webinar will summarize responses to the recent NRS public comment opportunity submitted by a wide variety of organizations and individuals. Presenters will summarize innovative enhancements to NRS performance accountability suggested to OCTAE in the areas of IET, distance education and digital literacy, high school equivalency, workplace literacy and other reporting topics. Intriguing improvements were submitted. Come join us in a review and analysis on ideas that adult educators hope make it into the NRS; learn how to add your own comments to the OCTAE response by December 21, 2020.
Presented by: Jen Vanek, Laurie Kierstead-Joseph, Amanda Bergson-Shilcock, Anson Green, and Sharon Bonney
|
|
|
Distance Education Strategy Sessions --
IET Career Pathway Programs in 2021 (and beyond): Changes in learner needs and hiring demand |
|
|
Join us on Friday, January 8th at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for our 20th Distance Education Strategy Session. 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic have brought about significant shifts in hiring demand and have accelerated the future of work in ways that none of us could have predicted. Immigrant and refugee communities have been disproportionately affected by job losses, and also make up a larger percentage of essential workers in healthcare and grocery/retail, among other sectors. IET Career Pathway programs must rapidly adapt to the changing needs of both their learners and the employer hiring demand within their local communities. Katie Nielson, PhD. and Tadd Wamester from the Voxy EnGen team will unpack these issues and also provide insight into how programs are transitioning to blended and virtual IET & career-focused language learning, now and into the future. |
|
|
Global System for Mobile Communications:
Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit |
|
|
The Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GMSA) has recently launched a Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit. In it you’ll find information and media you can use to teach digital literacy to maximize use of mobile devices in learning and daily life. The media are diverse (videos, posters, teaching tips, etc) and multilingual. Check it out here. |
|
|
|
