Jamie Harris is the keynote speaker at CASAS System's 2022 Summer Institute, where she will discuss the varied aspects of digital literacy in adult education, including digital resilience. Learn more about the institute and register below.

This Distance Education Strategy Session, sponsored by Essential Education, focuses on building relevance and engagement to keep learners motivated and moving forward. On Friday, May 13th at 1PM EST, Ann Marie Przybyl of Literacy New York will talk about Teaching Soft Skills by Incorporating Workplace Readiness Skills Into Adult Education. James Brown III of Guilford Tech Community College (NC) will then share about Using Formative Assessment and Seat Time Data for Engagement and Retention. Following the lightning talks, presenters will be available for informal small group discussions. 

We are pleased to share that our 21CLEO research team’s latest peer-reviewed article, Examining the Perspectives of Adult Working Learners and Key Stakeholders Using Critical Race Theory, was published in the journal of Higher Education, Skills, and Workplace Learning. This article discusses how, in response to the racial reckoning launched by the murder of George Floyd in early summer of 2020, the team reexamined their data, drawing on Critical Race Theory as an analytic framework to examine the perspectives of frontline service-working learners and key stakeholders in their education and training programs. 

Do you know state or other leaders strategizing on large-scale or regional investments on digital skills? World Education has collaborated with the National Governors Association, National Digital Inclusion Alliance, and the National Skils Coalition on the publication, Using Data to Advance Digital Skills: A State Playbook, to help state officials and other digital equity advocates get prepared for Digital Equity Planning by:

• Getting an overview of the types of digital skills that are available 
• Walking through a set of guiding questions to help identify state priorities in using existing data sets or conducting original data collection
• Providing case examples of how states are beginning to nibble away at this challenging issue

Essential Education has created a reading guide that extends the learning we provide in our open access IDEAL Distance Education and Blended Learning Handbook. Check it out to access additional reflection and planning activities and links to more resources.