Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This compendium describes the four innovative practices in secondary
credentialing selected from the Round 1 Advancing Innovation in Adult
Education applications.

Ready, Set, Go: Steps to Rapidly Start Distance Learning provides guidance to adult educators on how to quickly set-up distance learning programs for their students.

Teaching Online: Communicating and Tracking Learner Progress presents a clear and comprehensive approach for instructors to transition from an in-person to online learning environment.

This guide is for teachers, tutors, and administrators of programs and schools who provide adult basic skills education and who are hoping to initiate or improve blended learning for their students.

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 special edition of the COABE Journal highlights career pathways and workforce development.

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.

The Kentucky Skills U Instructional Technology Framework provides a common instructional technology foundation for comprehensive, assessment-aligned instructional support for adult educators. 

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.

This review discusses four online articles that provide essential background and useful instructional approaches for teaching digital literacy and digital problem solving in adult basic education classrooms and beyond.

This policy brief summarizes Integrated Education and Training (IET), which is a combination of education and job skills training that is used to transition adult learners beyond adult basic education and through a career pathway that can offer them job training and eventual gainful employment.

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.