The aim of the CREATE Edtech Technical Assistance (TA) Library is to provide guidance to practitioners and adult education leaders on integrating or advancing instruction through edtech and other digital technology. Resources include technology integration and digital skills frameworks, technology adoption checklists, webinars highlighting promising resources and strategies, and technology enhanced lesson plans and guidance.
Each submitted resource has been evaluated by internal subject matter experts from World Education to determine their viability for inclusion, their alignment to one or more technical assistance categories (informed by prior research and the expertise represented in the CREATE Adult Skills Network), and their quality of content, structure, and guidance. The technical assistance categories in this library include:
- Planning technology use;
- Communicating with learners;
- Managing content/instruction;
- Determining instructional content;
- Providing instruction through different modes; and
- Assessment
You can locate resources through the categories or by keyword search.
We welcome feedback on our contributions, categorization, and tagging. To report a broken link for any of our resources, please click on the “submit feedback” button seen above and fill out the form.
Do consider nominating a technical assistance resource, by clicking on the "submit new resource" button seen above and fill out the form. Submissions are reviewed monthly and will be added to the library if approved.
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During this webinar recording, presenters discuss considerations around free edtech tools that support communication, content, and learner management, to ensure the tools and strategies you have developed to continue learning today can carry over into our new realities of tomorrow... regardless of what that looks like!
This webinar provides guidelines on how to create and adapt learner activities to maximize reusability.
The goals for adult learning include being able to use literacy, numeracy, problem solving, communication, and digital skills effectively across contexts. Understanding the Learner Factors and strategies that impact adult literacies and how they connect to each other can help you build tools and lessons that support all learners. Learners thrive when their experience is personal and meaningful. This free tool helps you find research-based strategies that support the whole learner so you can create better learning experiences today.
Our guest presenter – Charlotte Parliament, Literacy and Essential Skills Program Coordinator at Simcoe County District School Board – shared how she uses Google Apps, such as Google Sites, Forms, Sheets and Docs, to set up and manage intake, as well as digital skills and learning styles assessments online.
The research brief explores the integration of digital technologies in adult basic education (ABE) to enhance digital literacy skills and learning outcomes. It highlights the challenges faced by adults in accessing broadband and digital devices. The paper emphasizes the importance of relevant technology use, content creation, sustained partnerships, effective professional development, and equitable access to foster digital literacy. Further research is needed to support effective technology integration in ABE settings.
Accessibility is essential for leveraging technology and providing educational opportunities for all students, including those with disabilities and English language learners. The toolkit offers resources, tips, and information for state and district leaders that can provide guidance on how to ensure accessibility is part of the educational equation. The goal is to support leaders in being proactive instead of reactive. The four sections of the toolkit define accessibility and share why this effort is important today, identify the legal requirements for digital accessibility, describe the benefits of digital accessibility, and explain the procurement of accessible technology.
The Top Tools for Learning List is compiled annually via a survey of learning professionals (and others in related areas) who are invited to nominate their Top 10 (digital) tools for learning. The list is organized by personal learning, workplace learning, and education, and the top tools are also categorized by tool type (e.g., office tools, content development tools, social and collaborative platforms, etc.) Each year, the site offers insights into trends as evidenced by resource submissions.
This article describes the Digital Literacy Action Plan, an instructional strategy designed to differentiate, increase learner agency, and address digital equity concerns. This article is written for adult basic education instructors who aim to integrate digital literacy skills into their instruction in a way that is meaningful to each learner and empowers learners to acquire digital skills autonomously.
This checklist can be used to develop a new distance education program or those looking to refine an existing distance education program. It doesn’t follow the order learners typically participate in the program (recruitment, orientation, instruction), rather, it starts with a focus on the learners and their goals. Then can be used to plan instruction based on the target audience and develop orientation and recruitment strategies once the specifics of the skills and technology needed to succeed in the instruction are more clearly known.
