Edtech Center @ World Education Receives Grant for Equity in mLearning Initiative

We are thrilled to partner with the World Education Services Mariam Assefa Fund on important work to ensure equitable and inclusive access to any time, anywhere mobile learning and career advancement solutions for immigrants, refugees and the organizations that serve them. Alison Ascher Webber, Director of Strategic Initiatives, EdTech Center @ World Education said:  “Mobile technologies could be leveraged to support millions more immigrants to meet their career goals through anytime, anywhere learning, assessment, and matching of skills to opportunity. The WES Mariam Assefa Fund’s investment in building an open-source, customizable mLearning  platform reflects their understanding that immigrants and the organizations that serve them must be part of designing and building this new digital learning ecosystem if it is to be equitable and effective at scale.”

The Digital US coalition is working to ensure equitable access to digital skills development and digital learning. Don’t miss the recap by Working Nation of the GSV Ventures virtual summit series webinar that highlighted the work of Digital US -  Driving a National Digital Skills Agenda to Ensure Access & Equity. The panel included coalition partners, Zoe Baird of Markle Foundation, Brian Napack, CEO of Wiley, Chike Aguh, Senior Advisor to Digital US, Angela Siefer of National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA), and Andy Trainor of Walmart, a coalition ally. 

The Digital Divide:
Providing Practical Solutions for Workforce Development

On Jun 25, 2020 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada), JVS Boston hosts a panel discussion to share lessons learned from their rapid transition to remote service delivery, including choosing the right technology, redesigning group and individual service delivery, and addressing client technology needs. The EdTech Center @ World Education will discuss its digital inclusion and COVID-19 response efforts and learnings from their work to support programs and practitioners across the country rapidly shift learning and services to remote models. Harvard University’s interdisciplinary Project on Workforce will describe their efforts to chart the course for a postsecondary system of the future that creates more & better pathways to economic mobility.

Webinar:
Distance Education Strategy Sessions

Join the EdTech Center this Friday, June 26th at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for the 12th installment of our Distance Education Strategy Sessions.

This webinar features two lightning talks. We welcome Riva Pearson, from JVS Hyde Park ESOL Program, who will share remote reading instructional strategies for using articles for The Change Agent, a biannual magazine of student writing published by the New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC) at World Education. Joey Lehrman and Tiffany Thomas,  Delgado Community College will describe their work using student engagement data to provide effective coaching. Following the lightning talks, we’ll break into two discussions and you can choose which topic you’d like to further explore.  

Race, Identity and English Language Teaching: 
A Joint TESOL Quarterly and TESOL Journal Publication

This special joint issue of TESOL Quarterly and TESOL Journal focuses on Race, Identity, and English Language Teaching. The first of its kind, it presents curated articles published within the past 5 years. The editors write that the issue is an action to show solidarity and to reaffirm TESOL’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as core values of multilingualism, multiculturalism, and individuals’ language rights. The issue is free and accessible to all.