This post describes how Cedar Riverside Adult Education Collaborative, an urban community-based organization (CBO) in Minnesota, used Learning Upgrade to support learning during the pandemic. A series of informal conversations with the program coordinator, program registrar, teachers, and ESOL Literacy students showed how the organization’s unique approach to onboarding attracted students to the program and increased motivation to learn outside of class. The structure and presentation within the app helped teachers clarify their instruction and assisted literacy-level ESOL learners in using the app independently. Finally, the gamified feel of Learning Upgrade provided a fun and engaging way to learn English remotely.

Join the EdTech Center @ World Education for our 2021 Summer Maker Camp series! During each of these engaging 90-minute sessions, you’ll travel to Lake Zoom with colleagues from around the country to engage in digital arts and crafts and team-building activities… all designed to help expand our open, crowdsourced Digital Skills Library and generate ideas for future EdTech Maker Space projects! Each session will focus on a different aspect of digital skills, and you’ll work in teams to share your great ideas and learn from others! The first event will be the Vocabulary Jam Session on July 16th where you will collaborate with colleagues to generate vocabulary lists for key digital skills and topics.