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Events & Announcements

Webinar:
Distance Education Strategy Sessions

Join the EdTech Center today, Friday, May 8th at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for our weekly Distance Education Strategy Sessions.

Our webinar on Friday, May 8th, 2020 features two lightning talks.  First, Lori Looney and her colleagues from Kentucky Skills U will share their innovative approach to providing resources and professional learning to help their teachers deliver quality distance education. Then, Tamara Thompson from Mockingbird Education will share strategies she has found useful for supporting learner engagement in synchronous online instruction. As always, following the lightning talks, we’ll break into two discussions and you can choose which topic you’d like to further explore.

mLearning Onboarding Webinar

The mLearning website launched just over a few weeks ago and we are excited to offer a webinar showcasing resources from one of the key practice areas: Onboarding. This will be the first webinar in a series highlighting resources, examples of effective use, and more. Check out our professional development calendar for more details on future webinars and related events. The website and resources come out of the mLearning Leadership Team and our community’s fantastic work using mobile learning apps for adult basic education and English language learning. 


For next week’s webinar, we will be joined by the mLearning leadership team and practitioners sharing insight on tools and approaches for effective onboarding; specifically, we will hear how programs have adapted onboarding and orientation activities from in-person to remote. Our presenters are:

  • Xavier Munoz, Literacy Council of Northern VA

  • Kathleen O’Connell, World Education

  • Jessica Rothenberg-Aalami, Cell-Ed

America's Workforce: 
A Call to Invest in Workforce in the Upcoming Stimulus

Our nation's workforce system – including workforce boards, labor unions, community and technical colleges, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders – stands ready to assist in getting U.S workers and businesses the skills they need for today's challenges and tomorrow's economic resurgence. Unfortunately, current investments in the U.S. workforce system fall far short of the needs of workers, businesses, and communities. 

Add your voice via the organizational sign-on here.
World Education Joins Global Education Coalition
The EdTech Center is thrilled to announce that World Education has joined the Global Education Coalition, an initiative launched by UNESCO to facilitate inclusive learning opportunities for children and youth during the COVID-19 crisis. World Education joins 80 members from around the world that are mobilizing resources and coordinating action to mitigate disruptions and safeguard education. Check out the coalition’s weekly webinar series here.
The Well:
Pandemic Pivots
Adults enrolled in adult education programs are among the most vulnerable and hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic: low-wage workers in the front line of the service sector, preparing and delivering our take-out food, stocking warehouses and grocery stores, taking care of the elderly and ill. Working from our strengths, our efforts in the U.S. have focused, in part, on ensuring that adult education providers know how to access technology tools so that adult learners can continue their learning. Read this blog post to learn more about how we’ve adapted our approach in the U.S. to mitigate disruptions to education amid COVID-19.

In Case You Missed It

The International Society for Technology in Education’s Adult EdTech Podcast Episode 2 was shared earlier this week. The podcast features ISTE SkillRise consultant Joey Lehrman presenting useful tips for online instruction. This week's episode includes a preview of using Google Apps like docs and slides, an introduction to learning apps, implementation strategies from Rhode Island TechHub (a longtime EdTech Center partner), and an overview of our own efforts to support rapid scale up of distance education across the country.
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