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Alison Ascher Webber joins the EdTech team as Director of Strategic Initiatives |
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We’re excited to bring on board Alison Ascher Webber as Director of Strategic Initiatives for our EdTech Center. Alison is a national expert in adult education and mobile learning, having served as the Education Director for Cell-Ed. At Cell-Ed, Alison led user experience, curriculum design, teacher training, and partnership development and helped grow Cell-Ed’s active users from 20 to over 1,000 low-wage agricultural and service economy workers through employer, union, government, and non-profit partnerships. “Mobile learning is an opportunity to provide affordable anytime, anywhere learning to many of the world’s hardest to serve populations,” says Alison. Most recently, as Associate Director at Avasant Foundation she has supported innovative edtech and employment initiatives for youth in the Caribbean, Africa, and India.
Alison has developed curricula, trained teachers, and led adult education programs serving low-wage immigrant workers in California for over 15 years. She brings to World Education deep expertise and experience designing and managing adult education initiatives as the first Executive Director of the Leadership Training & Education Fund and later helping lead the associated statewide non-profit, Building Skills Partnership. The ADVANCE Workplace English and tutoring programs she developed for janitors at leading high-tech companies and universities in Silicon Valley were recognized by the Migration Policy Institute as innovative models for immigrant integration.
Alison was drawn to work at World Education because she believes that “World Education has an incredible opportunity to serve the United States as well as the global community as a leading researcher, implementer and promoter of best practices in educational technologies, and especially for bringing new opportunities to populations often cut off by digital and educational divides.” Alison will work for World Education part-time based in Berkeley, California to connect us to cutting-edge initiatives and funders in California and elsewhere.
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E-LEARNING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Reminder: Last chance to register for College Readiness for Adult Learners: Beyond Academic Preparation and Navigating Pathways to Opportunity: Comprehensive Studdent Supports
College Readiness for Adults: Beyond Academic Preparation!
(2/22-4/12)
Identify, organize, and reflect on the broad array of readiness skills and abilities that adults need to be successful in postsecondary education and training. Facilitated by Priyanka Sharma. Anticipated time to complete is 3-4 hours per week.
Navigating Pathways to Opportunity: Comprehensive Student Supports
(2/28-4/11)
Explore ways to provide the supports that enable adults to succeed in an integrated career pathway program. Facilitated by Chris Stanyer. Anticipated time to complete is 3-4 hours per week.
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Current Post: Using Smartphones with WhatsApp to Teach English
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"Mobile devices, especially smartphones, are replacing laptops to the point that the students of any adult education class can access lessons online immediately, without depending on a computer at home or in the computer lab. In order to have a good understanding of how a teacher could include smart phones, we need to examine specific models. In this regard, I would like to share my own experience.
Almost by accident, I started depending more on the phone beginning nearly a year ago, when my ESL website, Pumarosa, became mobile friendly."
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