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The Adult Learner: Understanding Their Variability to Customize Their Learning

Digital Promise

COVID-19 has laid bare a long-standing challenge to America’s economic landscape: an underpaid, underappreciated, and underprepared workforce that has recently faced the harshest of economic blows. Brendaly Drayton, Ph.D., The Adult Learner Model is not a curriculum.

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Why This Mid-Sized North Carolina District Is Rethinking Its Approach to Edtech Procurement

ED Surge

While edtech isn’t explicitly within her purview, she works hand in hand with the district’s technology department because, as she says, “in this day and age, it's hard to do much without some form of technology in the classroom.” EdSurge: What led you to enroll in the Launch into Learning Sciences course ?

EdTech 105
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Breaking Barriers to a Foundational Early Childhood Education

ED Surge

Mahajan, who was part of national leadership at the Self-Employed Women's Association , noted that her interest in early childhood education stemmed from the perspective of motherhood, through which she recognized the importance of quality childcare for women's labor force participation and economic empowerment.

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