By Jamie Kreil, PhD and Jen Vanek, Ph.D By connecting with program managers and instructors across the US, the EdTech Center crafts use scenarios that illustrate where different online comprehensive curricula fare well and how they are used. In this post, we describe...

We’re looking forward to another great COABE conference this year filled with learning, networking and rich conversations on technology integration and adult learning. Having trouble deciding which sessions to attend? Our team created this curated list of sessions...

By Jayme Adelson Goldstein of Lighthearted Learning Over the past 11 months, teachers’ experiences in the virtual learning environment have ranged from sublime to frustrating to exciting to decidedly unexciting. Just last week on a particularly frustrating day, I lost...

Interviewed by Annalisa Crowe This month we welcome Javier Chan, co-founder of Processim Labs as a Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative fellow for entrepreneurs through the U.S. Department of State. Javier will advise our tech development, UX/UI, and...

By connecting with program managers and instructors across the US, the EdTech Center can craft use scenarios that illustrate where different online comprehensive curricula fare well and how they are used. In this post, we describe how a small adult basic skills...

By Jamie Kreil and Jen Vanek With the launch of the Adult Literacy XPRIZE Communities Competition in 2018, adult literacy programs across the US had unprecedented access to relevant and free mobile apps for learning. Among the apps used was Learning Upgrade, which...

By Cynthia Peters Looking for engaging, relevant content that you can teach in the remote classroom? The Change Agent publishes powerful writing authored by adult students, with learning activities to accompany each article. We now offer our content in media-rich...

As adult education programs shift from emergency remote teaching to more intentional, strategic integration of technology to support instruction and learning, we’ve seen instructors experimenting with a range of different edtech tools. Typically this begins with...

Readability for All The EdTech Center @ World Education has partnered with Adobe, Readability Matters and the University of Central Florida to explore how text personalization can improve readability in digital texts and literacy for all ages and abilities. As remote...

By Jen Vanek, Todd Evans, Michele Diecuch, Victoria Neff For years, the EdTech Center @ World Education and ProLiteracy have partnered together on a wide array of initiatives. Most recently, we’ve worked together on COVID-19 Rapid Response Research, as partners on...

by Jamie Harris, Adult Education Program Specialist at the Maryland Department of Labor There are terms we often hear, buzzwords, that are used everywhere, and we know those words are of importance. These terms are so frequent that we may even pepper them into our...

By Rachel Riggs, Family Literacy Instructor, Frederick Community College When I moved all of my classes online in the wake of COVID-19, I found that I missed classroom interaction the most. I missed seeing my students get to know each other, share their personalities,...

By Ashly Winkle, PD Coordinator & Director of Distance Learning, Literacy Council of Tyler Picture this: You want to try something new with your students, and you decide that you want to do a virtual science lab in class, but you don’t know where to start. So, you...

By Elisabeth Grinder McLean, Assistant Teaching Professor and Carol Clymer, Co-director Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy The COVID-19 pandemic affected our nation in many ways as stay-at-home orders from states were announced with startling speed....

By Tom Cytron-Hysom The challenges resulting from the COVID 19 pandemic are profound, affecting all areas of education, work, personal and national economics, family and daily life, and health. Complicating these difficulties for many is the dramatic increase in the...

By Nan Frydland, MEd TESOL, Literacy/ESL Instructor, Mercy Learning Center, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, Frydland & Co., LLC As a practitioner of culturally responsive teaching who works with adult Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal...

Accelerated digital transformation of our schools, workplaces, and social services during the COVID-19 pandemic has helped raise public awareness around persistent digital divides and the inequities they exacerbate. Less known is that only 10% of the 32 million adults...

Note: This is the second part of a two-part series on readability in digital texts and literacy. The first post defines readability and why it matters. The second post elaborates on recent research done to better understand readability preferences, as well as...

by Judy Mortrude The future of work is digital — and it’s already arriving. American workers in industries as diverse as agriculture and hospitality are increasingly required to use mobile apps, virtual reality headsets, and other digital tools to carry out their...

By Karisa Tashjian With a new decade upon us, it’s an ideal time to take stock of the remarkable changes in the ways that technology has affected our lives over the past ten years. The iPad debuted, mobile devices are widespread, more time is spent using social media,...

The EdTech Center is proud to support ProLiteracy and the Adult Literacy Education: The International Journal of Literacy, Language, and Numeracy on a special issue that highlights promising strategies for classroom technology integration, use of online learning, and...