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Welcome to another series of updates from the EdTech Center. Our newsletter will now be called ETCetera, ETC of course standing for the EdTech Center, and we will be updating our visuals soon to support this new branding. This edition showcases resources from our partners and projects we support, as well as a conclusive webinar from the Technology Testing for Adult Learning and Employment (TTALE) project. Make sure to check out the resources and register for the webinar. ~ |
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mLearning for Out of School Youth in Cambodia
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On Sunday February 17th, World Education celebrated the launch of the Basic Education Equivalency Program (BEEP), which enables out of school youth and adults in Cambodia to study by tablet and phone the equivalent of grade 9 secondary/basic education. The EdTech Center is providing technical support for various partners including UNESCO and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport on the Moodle LMS development, including advising on course development and LMS administration, and using the Moodle Mobile app and expanding access by translating the app into Khmer.
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Data Interoperability Supports Workers
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A new, interactive report by Digital Promise,
Tapping Data for Frontline Talent Development, shares how the seamless and secure sharing of data is key to creating more effective learning and career pathways for frontline service workers. Not only can data sharing help to improve programs and services, it can create more personalized interventions for education providers supporting frontline workers, and it can also improve talent pipelines for employers.
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PAIRIN – Helping Job Seekers “Look in the Mirror” to Assess Personal Soft Skills
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Soft skills. Employability skills. POWER skills. Regardless of what name you give them, these skills frequently are cited as being the most challenging for employers to gauge but are critical for success in both getting and keeping a job. The PAIRIN Readiness Management System, offers a skills assessment and resources to support the development of these skills and offers the means by which to integrate soft skills development and fit-matching into the hiring process. Workforce Development organizations across the country use PAIRIN to create opportunities for job seekers who have not fit well into traditional hiring processes. This blog post features highlights of our PAIRIN field test and shows the potential impact of competency based hiring technologies.
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WEBINAR-Technology Testing for Adult Learning and Employment:
Learning From Innovation in the Field
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
Over the past year, the EdTech Center has been field testing seven education and workforce development technologies funded by the Employment Technology Fund: Care Academy, Cell-Ed, Nepris, Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment, PAIRIN, Signal Vine, and SkillSmart. Our work, supported by Walmart, has shed light on the affordances of the tools and characteristics of the use scenarios that support persistence and learner success. We will share these findings in a webinar on Tuesday, March 5th at 11:00 Pacific/1:00 Central/ 2:00 Eastern time. We will feature stories of end-users and learners who characterize the field testing participants that we met along the way. Additionally, you can hear from developers and key implementers, who can respond to questions about the tools or their use.
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