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Research Updates from the TSTM-SkillBlox Instructional Support Pilot Team
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Recently, SkillBlox was updated to include over 1,000 new activities in four new subject areas, along with a number of new features designed to ease the process of sharing and adapting SkillBlox created by other users. But what led to these updates over others? In Designing in the Open: Building Free Software, Blox by Blox, the TSTM-SkillBlox team describes the invention and building of the free, open education resource (OER) platform. The team shares early insights gleaned as they’ve worked to build a sustainable, equitable open education ecosystem…
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Improving Adult Skills Education: Early Findings to Inform the Teaching Skills That Matter (TSTM)-SkillBlox Instructional Support Pilot
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The TSTM-SkillBlox Instructional Support Pilot is exploring how the TSTM instructional framework, delivered through the SkillBlox online platform, can improve technology-enabled adult skills instruction. We launched the first component of the pilot, an implementation study of TSTM, in Fall of 2021 to explore the needs and experiences of teachers who are aligning their instructional practices with TSTM. We found promising practices and identified obstacles to inform development of SkillBlox that supports TSTM…
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CREATE Shares Their Rubric for Technical Assistance Evaluation!
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The digital technology landscape is constantly evolving. To sustain provision of innovative and quality instruction that prepares adult learners to use digital technologies in schooling and work, adult education program leaders and teachers must continuously evolve in the way they make use of digital technologies in their programming. This can be a dizzying challenge as practitioners and program leaders may feel they have insufficient experience and confidence to make choices about what technology to use, when to use it, and for what purpose. Quality technical…
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Information Request from NCER for Potential Program
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The National Center for Education Research (NCER), a center within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), is seeking insight to guide its efforts to fund quick-turnaround high-reward, scalable solutions intended to improve education outcomes for all students.
This RFI is focused on a proposed new program called “From Seedlings to Scale” (S2S). IES is considering a three-phase investment strategy for S2S to support transformative ideas as they grow from seedlings to scalable solutions. As proposed, S2S would focus on high quality research, robust…
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CREATE Launches its Edtech Technical Assistance Library
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The Create Adult Skills Network is excited to announce the launch of the Edtech Technical Assistance Library. The TA Library, carefully developed by World Education, is a compilation of technical assistance resources designed to help adult education leaders and practitioners plan and implement instruction utilizing educational technology. The resources in the TA Library are organized in the following categories. These categories mirror types of tasks for which teachers use digital technologies and for which teachers might seek assistance:
Planning technology…
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New Podcast Episode - AI in Adult Education
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In the latest episode of the TALK Podcast, we continue our focus on generative AI and implications of this emerging technology on the adult education field. We explore practical use cases of generative AI, including assessment and research applications.
The guests for this episode are Javier Suarez-Alvarez, Associate Professor from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Project Director of the Adult Skills Assessment Program (funded by IES) since its inception in 2021 and Aaron Heuser, Managing Director of the Data Science and Advanced Analytics Group…
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AEFL Week 2023 Resource Roundup
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For AEFL Week 2023, we shared out our top five adult education and family literacy resources. AEFL Week is a national collaboration between families, educators, legislators, and community partners to promote adult literacy. Each of our selected resources supports adult literacy through various means, from technical assistance and resources for educators to an interactive tool for all community stakeholders. We encourage you to investigate and use these tools to support adult literacy work.
EDTECH TA LIBRARY
The Edtech Technical Assistance (TA) Library…
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AEFL Week Resource Roundup: DEIA Brief
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For AEFL week, we have been sharing our top five resources throughout the week! For our final resource, we’re sharing the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Adult Foundational Education brief! This BRAND NEW brief emphasizes the critical need to focus on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA). As in all areas of education, these concepts help shape adult foundational education (AFE), with services that aim to improve literacy, numeracy, language, digital and other core skills.
This brief sheds light on DEIA conditions,…
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AEFL Week Resource Roundup: Literacy Gap Map
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For AEFL week, we’ve been sharing our top five resources! For our fourth resource, we’re sharing the Literacy Gap Map! 130 million Americans—54% of adults between the ages of 16-74—lack proficiency in literacy, essentially reading below the equivalent of a 6th grade level. The Barbara Bush Foundation’s Literacy Gap Map is an interactive map which allows users to identify the intersection between language, health, economic status, and literacy.
Literacy doesn't just impact reading. Health, finances, and household income are all dependent on literacy. By…
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AEFL Week Resource Roundup: Digital Skills Brief
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As a part of AEFL week, we’re sharing our top five resources throughout the week! For our third resource, we’re sharing the Digital Skills Frameworks and Assessments: A Foundation for Understanding Adult Learners’ Strengths and Learning Needs brief! CREATE research teams are developing technology-supported learning and assessment tools and implementing curricula to help adult learners build digital skills and noted the importance of gaining a better understanding of the digital skills learners need.
This brief introduces popular frameworks and assessment…