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#AILiteracy is essential in today’s digital age. It helps ensure that people are informed users of AI technology and can leverage these tools to enhance their personal and professional lives. This brief helps raise awareness of what AI literacy looks like in day-to-day life and how it can support financial, digital, health, and family literacy, education, civic engagement, and workforce readiness: https://lnkd.in/gETesEYc EdTech Center at World Education

The future is bright!🔆 Anabela and Dércio, interns with the USAID SABER program, are supporting students while gaining new skills of their own. Anabela does monitoring and evaluation, "working with tools and learning more about how the academic and student and teacher analysis processes are carried out." Her experience at SABER has developed her technical skills and her self confidence, making her well prepared for the job market. Dércio is using his degree in mathematics to support the SABER team. He's building his skills working with data and digital technologies and strengthening his teamwork and collaboration abilities. “This experience opened me up to new perspectives and prepared me for the challenges of a teaching career,” he shared.

Did you know that new #AbilityToBenefit (ATB) regulations went into effect as of July 1, 2024? These changes include 1) a new federal approval process for Eligible Career Pathway Programs, 2) demonstrated alignment between #PostsecondaryEducation and #AdultEducation providers, and 3) a new application and implementation process for states pursuing the state defined process option. View detailed guidance from the U.S. Department of Education on these changes: https://lnkd.in/gzsfj5ny And in case you missed it, don’t forget to join World Education, Corporation for a Skilled Workforce (CSW), and the University of Pittsburgh this Wednesday, July 10, 2:00 p.m. Eastern, for a webinar on CSW’s ATB pilot project, A2B4Equity: Increasing Access to Federal Aid through Ability to Benefit! The webinar will provide a detailed overview of A2B4Equity, including its successes and challenges and guidance on how other adult education and community college professionals can implement ATB at their institutions. Register: https://lnkd.in/gSg6rp2q

A warm welcome to UNOPS! Our team in #Mozambique and consortium of partners under the MozNorte project were happy to welcome representatives from funder UNOPS. We visited the offices of partner AENA and shared our progress so far, and then met with a participating community to discuss how the project can continue meeting their needs. UNOPS noted the communities' ownership of the project, and during a visit to the District Administrator, we discussed opportunities for future collaboration with local governments. Learn more about MozNorte: https://lnkd.in/gugUeFxU

Join World Education and Pace AI to explore the considerations of using technology in education and workforce development. Classroom teachers, education leaders, industry experts, and adult learners—ALL are welcome to join and participate in the conversation, live on LinkedIn. #GenAI Register: https://lnkd.in/ePRiCvgt

Community case workers share vital health information to thousands of parents and other caregivers of children and adolescents living with HIV in Malawi. Learn how World Education’s EdTech Center and Bantwana Initiative teams field-tested Liquid Mode, a feature of Adobe Acrobat Reader, to help case workers with limited access to the internet access PDFs to support their work. Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eifU_9_T #DigitalLiteracy

Flavio Magaia is the assessment coordinator for the USAID SABER program, which is expanding #bilingualeducation to more than 2 million students across #Mozambique. He shares how we've integrated #assessment models and tools into existing classroom activities to ensure students are learning and teachers are well prepared. We're also conducting research on assessment implementation and challenges with delivery to continuously improve our approaches. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gtHfwTWg

How can we increase access to #PostsecondaryEducation for adult learners? The #AbilityToBenefit (ATB) provision in the Higher Education Act gives adults without a high school diploma or equivalent access to federal student aid. ATB is a critical strategy for ensuring equitable access to postsecondary education for adults who are simultaneously working to complete their high school diploma or equivalent. Unfortunately, ATB is poorly understood and massively underutilized, in no small part due to the fluctuation of legislative approval. ATB evolved throughout the 1990s and early 2000s and was followed by a period of confusion in the 2010s. In the past decade, ATB has seen progress! Our National College Transition Network (NCTN) has led and supported multiple projects to advance the uptake of ATB in recent years. For the rest of July, we’ll be posting weekly with updates and resources on ATB. In the meantime, visit the NCTN ATB page to read our blog series and learn more about ATB: https://lnkd.in/gAvzAaxU

To support #DigitalLiteracy for thousands of adult learners, we led 25 #Boston adult education and training programs through a comprehensive needs assessment and action planning process. Supported by coaching and professional development, each program made substantial progress in recognizing and addressing gaps in their approach to integrating technology and digital literacy. Each developed 5 #EdTech strategy routines, published in this library: https://lnkd.in/gSAWkMeJ “We have made some immediate changes to our [student enrollment] application based on the work we did on the needs assessment. It's already been helpful in meeting with prospective students!” - Participant

The Innovating Digital Education in Adult Learning (IDEAL) Consortium is excited to announce that registration for The IDEAL Edtech Innovations Open Conference is now available! Lighting talks, workshops, and a CampGPT + Maker Space mashup are coming on August 22, 2024 at 12:45 PM ET. Register at bit.ly/EdTechInnovations World Education