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21 CLEO Research Project
Digs into Persona Development |
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The EdTech Center and the Literacy Language and Technology Research Group at Portland State University are researching employer-supported learning opportunities in order to unearth the characteristics of effective work-based and employer supported educational offerings. The team has crafted a process for creating persona based on research findings and are using it to define for whom such learning needs to be designed. Read about why personas are important to develop and understand. |
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The EdTech Center is Hiring!
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Instructional Designer - Consultant Needed for Summer/Early Fall Work
Instructional Designers with a strong background in developing ADA 508 compliant learning objects - we need you! We have a new project with a very fast pace - starting now and concluding in September 30. We’d love to hear from you if you would like to work with us this summer.
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Digital Learning Lead - Staff Position
Are you passionate about leveraging technology to improve literacy, basic skills, career and economic mobility? Do you have experience designing digital learning solutions and delivering professional development? Can you help us grow our network? Come work for the EdTech Center @ World Education! We are hiring a Digital Learning leader to support our work both in the US and internationally.
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mLearning webinar #3:
Outreach
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Join us on Wednesday, July 15th at 10 AM Pacific / Noon Central / 1 PM Eastern as we showcase tools and strategies for establishing and maintaining effective outreach featuring resources from our mLearning website!
During this webinar, Jen Vanek from World Education will outline the steps for planning effective outreach using a communications planning template and will share how one organization uses a Facebook Messenger pop-up to support automated communication; EdTech Center Advisor Jeff Goumas from CrowdED Learning will examine various free tools for communications to be leveraged based on your organization’s goals and end user access; and Melanie Sampson, the Content Director at Literacy Work’s Clear Language Lab—which supports mission-driven organizations in making communication more accessible for adult learners and others who have encountered systemic barriers—will share key principles of plain language that you can incorporate into your communication strategies as well as resources to further your use of these principles.
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Webinar:
Distance Education Strategy Sessions
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Join the EdTech Center today, July 10th at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for the 13th installment of our Distance Education Strategy Sessions.
This webinar features two lightning talks. We welcome Heather Tatton-Harris, from Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School, who will share resources and strategies they developed to do registration and intake completely online. EdTech Center advisor Jeff Goumas will share a promising new tech resource – smartphone emulating or “mirroring” – that teachers can use to help students working on mobile devices. Following the lightning talks, we’ll break into two discussions and you can choose which topic you’d like to further explore.
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National Skills Coalition:
Federal government allows use of TANF, SNAP E&T,
WIOA funds to support digital inclusion |
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The rapid shift to online services caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the barriers to digital inclusion faced by millions of US workers and jobseekers. Even as adult education organizations, community colleges, and workforce development providers have converted their programs almost overnight into distance learning or other virtual services, a significant percentage of their constituents have been unable to access those services because of such barriers.
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The ETC’s Jen Vanek authored a digital skills instruction toolkit as part of AIR’s Teaching Skills that Matter (TSTM) initiative. TSTM toolkits, available on LINCS, feature briefs, case studies, and lesson plans that help teachers integrate transferable skills using approaches like, project-based learning and problem solving. |
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New Microsoft Initiative Supporting
Digital Skill Development for COVID-19 Economy |
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Microsoft has launched a $20 million initiative to connect adult learners to opportunities to develop skills needed for work. Building on jobs and skills data from the LinkedIn Economic Graph, it provides free access to content in LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Learn, and the GitHub Learning Lab, leading to Microsoft Certifications and LinkedIn job seeking tools. $5 million will go to community-based nonprofits led by and serving communities of color in the United States. This is an example of large-scale employer investment in essential digital skills that the Digital US coalition called in its new report and new blog.
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New Reading App Development:
Survey for Learners
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GogyUp is a new app to support young adults with reading in the real world. The developers are calling for input on 1) features for the app that would help young adults comprehend both academic and workplace reading, and 2) how to tell others about this new reading app. The 6-7 minutes survey is anonymous.
Learners will have the option to enter into a drawing to win one of four $50 VISA gift cards. They are also seeking volunteers who might be interested in serving on their Young Adult Advisory committee and/or test the app. (All good resume building experiences for those interested!) These opportunities are included at the end of the survey.
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