Guest Discussion: How Technology Can Transform Adult Education

Submitted by Marie Cora on Wed, 07/31/2013 - 13:21
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Dear colleagues, 

The guest discussion below is focused on the release of a new report on the National Education Technology Plan for Adult Education.  The report includes a section on assessment that should be a great interest to us in this community.  I encourage you to read through the report when it comes out, giving special attention to the assessment section so we can ask questions and provide experiences and/or comments during the guest discussion in mid August.  I will post a message here in the community as soon as I hear the report has been released.

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How Technology Can Transform Adult Education

During August 13-19, 2013, the LINCS Community will co-host a guided discussion in the Technology and Learning group to consider how technology can transform adult education and current practice. Adult education and technology experts Art Graesser and David Rosen will discuss the use of education technology in the adult education field to innovate teaching and learning to meet the needs of adult learners.

This timely and significant conversation will serve to provide comment on an upcoming report to be released by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE). Later this month, OVAE will release and request public comment on the draft report: Connected Teaching and Personalized Learning: Implications of the National Education Technology Plan (NETP) for Adult Education, produced through a contract with the American Institutes for Research.

Stay tuned for the release of the report and more information about this corresponding LINCS Community event. Public comment on the report will be accepted via this LINCS Community conversation, so please encourage your friends and colleagues to join the community in advance of August’s discussion!

Best regards,

LINCS Community Team

https://community.lincs.ed.gov/event/how-technology-can-transform-adult-education

 

David J. Rosen

djrosen123@gmail.com

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Hello everyone,

I'm following up on my earlier announcement about this week's guest discussion in the Technology CoP focused on how technology can transform adult education.  The conversation has started so I encourage you to join in.  Further information and details about the discussion topic, guests, and the recently released report  Connected Teaching and Personalized Learning: Implications of the National Education Technology Plan (NETP) for Adult Education can be found at: 

https://community.lincs.ed.gov/notice/share-your-knowledge-how-can-technology-transform-adult-education-and-current-practice

In addition, you can find a schedule of each day's discussion topic at this link:

https://community.lincs.ed.gov/notice/join-us-next-week-guided-discussion-schedule

Please note that on Thursday, Aug. 15, the focus of the discussion will be on assessment and messages will be cross-posted that day for us to engage.  

Below are some questions to generate discussion.  I look forward to the conversation this week and especially on Thursday.

Assessment (August 15)

  • Page 14 of the report describes ways to assess students’ work digitally. How have you assessed your students’ work in digital environments?  And how as this type of assessment informed your class content?
  • Adult education classes frequently contextualize learning for adult students.  What types of digital or online work samples have you collected and how have you evaluated those samples of your students’ work?
  • The adult education field has been tracking data on programs and students for nearly 15 years. How have you used student-level data in your program or classroom to “create a more tailored, personalized learning trajectory for” your learners?