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THE BREAKING THROUGH PRACTICE GUIDE IS DESIGNED FOR PRACTITIONERS WHO WANT TO CONNECT ADULTS WHO HAVE LIMITED READING AND MATH SKILLS WITH POSTSECONDARY CREDENTIALS LEADING TO JOBS PAYING FAMILY-SUPPORTING WAGES. IT COMPILES PRACTICES DEVELOPED AND IMPLEMENTED BY COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN THE NATIONAL BREAKING THROUGH INITIATIVE.

Contextualized Teaching & Learning: A Faculty Primer A Review of Literature and Faculty Practices with Implications for California Community College Practitioners

CONTEXTUALIZING ADULT EDUCATION INSTRUCTION TO CAREER PATHWAYS

Contextualization: Creating a Support System for Contextualized Instruction A Toolkit for Program Managers

You can use this tool to see the vocabulary frequency of any text. So if you are trying to simplify a text for a remedial reader you can see which vocabulary words need to be simplified first, or scaffolded

Not user friendly, but if you dig its useful.

MUST READ for those in #openabe. This is a great summary of design heuristics drawn from various learning theories associated with adult learning.

MUST READ for those in #openabe. This is a great summary of design heuristics drawn from various learning theories associated with adult learning.

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"Bridge programs are a 21st-century idea for helping prepare low-skilled individuals for jobs that require more education. Known by many names-integrated education and training, contextualized learning, embedded skills-bridge programs assist students in obtaining academic, employability, and technical skills they need to enter and succeed in postsecondary education and training and the labor market. BridgeConnect is a national survey designed to help determine the depth and breadth of bridge programs throughout the country. Quantifying the number and types of programs in operation can help policymakers and funders improve both policy and practice related to adult education. A critical mass of bridge programs may suggest the approach is ready for rigorous evaluation; that an effort to formally identify standard of excellence is warranted; or that it is time to identify strategies for scaling up the most effective programs."

some open licensed materials - not sure how accessible the Moodle courses are outside of Canada - worth trying? some of the media elements might be useful

While test scores can predict academic success, self-management and relationship skills may better prepare students to thrive and graduate.

B.C. (Canada) open licensed textbooks - see new Adult Literacy Math textbooks! If you modify/improve, share back to site. Tell your story of usage - they'd be thrilled!

Asym formatting provides visual cues. These visual cues help good readers read faster and understand more. These cues also help poor readers have the same saccades as good readers.

"The 'basic skills' of literacy and numeracy are among the most fundamental attributes of human beings and their civilization, lying at the root of our capacity to communicate and live and work together, to develop and share knowledge, science and culture. Their contribution to workforce skills have increasingly been recognized as critical to economic success, while evidence on gaps in adult basic skills and the link with economic and social outcomes has also been growing, both at national and international level (e.g. International Survey of Adult Skills of 1994-98 and Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey of 2003-2007). Most tellingly, there has been a belated realization that despite universal basic education in advanced countries, some adults have slipped through the net, leaving them with very weak literacy and numeracy. All of these factors underline the importance of the OECD's new international Survey of Adult Skills."

"Add your particular expertise to the wider community. Create open education resources (on your own, or with others) with our publishing tool: Open Author. Open Author helps you build OER, lesson plans, and courses-and then publish them, to the benefit of educators and learners everywhere. Learn more about Open Author and get started. Start Authoring "

This Global Report on Adult Learning and Education builds on strong foundations. Since the first International Conference on Adult Education in 1949, UNESCO Member States have convened every twelve years to discuss the state of adult education in their countries. In 1976, the UNESCO General Conference approved the Recommendation on the Development of Adult Education, confirming that "access of adults to education, in the context of lifelong education, is a fundamental aspect of the right to education, and facilitates the exercise of the right to participate in political, cultural, artistic and scientific life."

"The United States Federal government is supporting the use of open educational resources to provide equitable access to quality education."

U.S. Department of Education, Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, Adult Education and Family Literacy Act of 1998: Annual Report to Congress, Program Year 2011-12, Washington, D.C., 2015.

"The work is the result of a nine-month process that examined the Common Core State Standards from the perspective of adult education. It was funded to provide a set of manageable yet significant CCR standards that reflect broad agreement among subject matter experts in adult education about what is desirable for adult students to know to be prepared for the rigors of postsecondary education and training. The report was written by Susan Pimentel, prepared by MPR, Associates, Inc. If you have any questions please contact Ronna Spacone at Ronna.Spacone@ed.gov."