Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This report presents insights from the past three Power in Numbers reports, accompanied by case studies that illustrate how organizations have implemented best practices in the real world.

This report explores how improving the process by which edtech is developed and deployed in the marketplace can result in greater classroom impact for adult educators and learners.

These resource sheets for administrators and educators are part of the Power in Numbers initiative funded by the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE). Power in Numbers aims to help adult students receive the higher-level math skills they need to succeed. This resource provides administrators and educators with an understanding of what open educational resources (OER) are, why they are useful and how to get started using them.

This podcast explores digital equity and why it is considered by many to be the civil right for our time.

This toolkit contains tutorials, templates and sample lessons that help adult educators create documents that use hypertext to help students learn key concepts independently.

This handbook is a practical guide that supports the delivery of quality distance education programming.

This report explores the potential for technology to enhance the teaching and learning of advanced math skills for adults.

This open-access version of the Northstar Digital Literacy Project assessments can be used for assessing digital literacy skills to inform instruction.

This webinar is an introduction to blended learning—a teaching and learning model that combines face-to-face instruction with online learning.

This study investigated whether five web-based instructional programs increased the capacity of adult basic education (ABE) programs to provide efficient and effective leaning opportunities to adult students.

This paper examines how to best provide teachers with the time, support, and space to learn how to use new technological tools and resources effectively.

A free Open Educational Resource (OER) designed to assist teachers, content creators, Web developers, and others in creating adaptable and personalizable educational resources that can accommodate a diversity of learning styles and individual needs.

A searchable database of over 7,000 local literacy programs and GED testing centers across the country.

The National Education Technology Plan (NETP), updated in 2017, sets a national vision and plan for learning enabled by technology through building on the work of leading education researchers; district, school, and higher education leaders; classroom teachers; developers; entrepreneurs; and nonprofit organizations. 

Reimagining the Role of Technology in Higher Education aligns the role of technology serving the needs of a diverse group of students seeking access to high-quality postsecondary learning experiences.

This paper explores the potential benefits that simulated Work-Based Learning (WBL) may offer career and technical education (CTE) students. 

This webinar, published by the Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE) reviews a variety of free technology resources that can be integrated into the adult education classroom. 

This report explores the potential for technology to enhance the teaching and learning of advanced math skills to adults. 

This checklist is a useful tool for teachers and learners to evaluate website quality.

This brief describes how adult learning theory can be applied in the design of age appropriate digital learning experiences.

This brief discusses five research-based principles for product developers to consider when designing digital learning tools for adult learners.

This companion learning resource, Integrating Digital Literacy into English Language Instruction, provides numerous examples of instructional models, strategies, tools, and tasks for integrating digital literacy into English language acquisition instruction.

This report summarizes research findings about the conditions and practices that support positive outcomes of technology use for underserved, under-resourced, and underprepared students.

Examination of digital literacy acquisition learning experiences designed to prepare prisoners for re-entry (a case study)