CrowdEd Learning, a World Education Initiative has created a series of tools to help instructors and adult education programs plan for effective instruction. This resource, Teacher Tools, allows you to explore strategies for effective online instruction and provides resources to formulate your online instructional plan. Additional resources are available to help you decide what communication tools, content resources, and classroom management tools you can use to provide a high-quality learning environment.

How have programs empowered staff to move forward on their digital literacy journeys, equipping them with the skills and confidence to guide their students along their own paths? In this webinar, explore a range of strategies aimed at extending support for instructors and other staff members who are building key digital skills: creating a professional development plan, pairing with mentors, engaging with free interactive online lessons, and more. You will see examples of tools you can use or modify to align with your curriculum and match to the levels of your staff and student digital literacy skills.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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 emerging needs for remote instruction swept across the state, colleagues come together in this webinar to network and discuss strategies for developing an online class. This webinar focuses on learning how to modify face-to-face content for online instruction, and Identify best practices for online instruction including keeping students informed of the progress and staying connected.