This is our second in a series of blog posts where the 21 CLEO research team shares personas we’ve generated from talking to working learners in our research on employer-supported learning. In this blog post we describe Neberu. This persona focuses on the experiences of a ‘back of the house’ worker learning English. He is an independent learner who would like to start his own business. He works two jobs so he has little extra time for learning, yet he persists toward his goal. 

The EdTech Center is talking with practitioners across the country who have taken part in the Learning Upgrade Challenge, a gamified approach to incentive use of the mobile learning app. Check out this second blog post in our series, in which we report on how Rockingham Community College makes use of Learning Upgrade to support differentiation in instruction for a diverse group of learners studying together in their ‘one-room schoolhouse’ model - both in-person and remotely!

Join us February 12 from 1 - 2:30 PM Eastern for a Distance Education Strategy Session with tools and tips for building an evidence-based, tech integration strategy toolkit! First, Medha Tare and Sarah Cacicio from ETC partner Digital Promise share their recently released evidence-based Adult Learner Model that can be used to improve instructional strategies. Then, Jayme Adelson Goldstein of Lighthearted Learning will put theory into practice by sharing a guide full of tech integration strategies that includes guidance for how students experience different strategies when using a mobile device.