This publication shares findings from the Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) initiative landscape scan and responds to questions raised in interviews with learners and practitioners about how educators can best support adult learners in developing the digital skills required to secure a better future for themselves.

As you think about integrating digital literacy into core instructional practices, project-based learning (PBL) can be a powerful approach to customizing teaching and learning that responds to your students’ needs and interests. In this workshop, learn about ways you can develop and use PBL activities that address adult learning and development theory and promote persistence.

This resource can guide educators as they design activities with credibility, relevance, learning and support features, accessibility, and openness in mind. These are the same criteria that are known to support the creation of quality, reusable open education resources (OER). The guide includes a concise checklist, explanations of the criteria within the checklist, and a list of sources that shaped its development.

In this webinar, you tour the Career Planning and Job Search Resources for Advisors collection, its features, and examine tools and resources that are the most popular among advisors. This webinar highlights tools that based on your advising needs and goals, can help you to select resources that meet your learners’ needs.

This webinar presents how to effectively use the smartphone in a classroom setting, not only with students, but for the teacher to be more effective and efficient with time in the classroom. This covers students/teachers using their smartphone for 24/7 engagement through various platforms.

Digital literacy is vital to adult learners’ lives, education, and employment, as well as to staff in their work with students. This webinar is facilitated by Jamie Harris, who co-authored the Maryland Digital Literacy Framework. She describes the structure of the Framework and how you can use it to inform planning and instruction. She explains how you can use the readily available, practical examples in the Instructors’ Guide for integrating digital literacy instruction in your classroom.

This tool can be used to identify bias in curricular resources. It provides twelve identity markers to examine, along with guidance and prompts for the evaluation process. It was developed and designed for use in a community of practice but is useful for institutions and individuals, as well.

Although many programs have students for a very limited number of hours, teachers, advisors, and others have so much we need to cover during that brief time. While it can certainly be challenging to figure out how to include digital literacy along with content and skills, it can be done! This workshop offers an approach to weaving together digital literacy, content, and skills with examples including a single lesson, curriculum theme, and project.

One component of the learner experience includes an understanding of their digital skills and access needs. These surveys were designed by the YWCA National Capital Area program to engage and process new learners during the intake process. All of the surveys are openly available and can be adapted for your programming: Distance Learning Technology Access Survey, Online Learning Readiness Survey, and Motivation Inventory.

There are many free and editable resources for adult educators and their learners. By using Open Educational Resources (OER) in the classroom and online, teachers and agencies can save money, revise and refresh curriculum and give learners an opportunity to customize their learning. This session will introduce participants to the basics of Open Educational Resources; what they are, how can you find them, and considerations for determining their quality for use in your classroom.