The EdTech Center @ World Education is proud to serve as an advisor to the National Governors Association (NGA) Workforce Innovation Network (WIN), which helps states build capacity for near-term innovation and longer-term strategy to prepare their workforces for a post-COVID-19 economy. 

 

Last week, EdTech Center’s Alison Ascher Webber presented on recent work to advance digital skills and equity andlearnings from the Digital US coalition and Digital Resilience in the American Workforce initiative. She was joined by initiative partners including JFF, Upskill America @ Aspen, and NSC and leaders from Western Governor University to share resources and strategize with states on developing their digital equity plans and on strategies for digital skill development including training digital navigators, data and assessment, and taking an asset-based approach to ensure equity.

On Friday, March 11th at 1PM EST, we will hear from Kamille Kolar of Cambria and Anson Green of Tyson Foods, two employers that have leveraged EnGen to fuel their adult education partnerships. Kamille Kolar, an Instructional Designer for Cambria, will describe the English program’s mission, origin story, and how challenges that arose during the pandemic led to an evolution in the program’s model that created opportunity for employees to develop their digital literacy skills in tandem with their English language skills. Anson Green will describe Tyson Foods’ current efforts to develop digital literacy to non/Limited-English speaking workers, including custom lessons developed by EnGen. Following the lightning talks, presenters will be available for informal small group discussions.

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The Remote ESOL project site and presented learnings, promising innovations, and policy recommendations holds information for teachers, administrators, policy makers, and researchers interested in leveraging educational technology to support enrollment, attendance, achievement, and completion in remote ESOL programming for adults. The information stems from six months of research done to uncover examples of promising practices and programming most of which sprung up in response to the COVID-19 pandemic – when remote instruction and distance education were the only modalities of learning possible in many places.