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\nTechnology Solutions for Adult Basic Skills Challenges  \nThe CrowdED Learning Solution  \nDavid J. Rosen, Newsome Associates  \nThe focus of the Technology Solutions for Adult Basic Skills Challenges column is common challenges of adult basic skills practitioners, expressed, for example, in the LINCS Integrating Technology group for which I am the moderator, in other LINCS groups, in my national and state conference or webinar presentations, or privately in face-to-face discussions or by phone or email. Solutions include: hardware such as desktop and laptop computers, smartphones, electronic tablets, VR Goggles, and electronic whiteboards; and digital software applications such as websites, course management systems, learning management systems, databases, and apps for mobile devices. Each article will begin with a challenge and will examine one or more possible technology solutions.  \nDescription of the Challenge  \nFinding high quality, free or open education resource teaching and learning resources on the Internet is a common challenge for adult basic skills (including ESOL/ESL) teachers. Several years ago, there weren’t many instructional resources on the web; now that problem has been solved, but teachers complain that it is difficult to sort out among the many instructional resources the ones that are high quality, that are for the subject they teach (e.g., numeracy/math, reading, writing, science, social studies or ESL/ESOL), for the levels of their students, and that cover the particular content standards they must address, for example the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education (CCRS). There are many websites that address this challenge for K-12 teachers, including those that align lesson plans and other instructional content with the Common Core State Standards, but, in my role as moderator of the LINCS Integrating Technology group, I am often asked if there is one specifically for Adult Basic Skills teachers. Until now, my answer has been “no.”  \nA Possible Solution  \nThere isn’t yet a fully developed, comprehensive, web-based solution to the problem. Most adult basic skills publishers have aligned their online instructional materials to the CCRS. Many of these proprietary sites offer high quality instructional materials, and it is usually easy to determine the subject and level of these materials; however, no publisher has attempted to bring all the adult basic skills online curricula into one easy-to-use comprehensive site. Adult basic skills teachers can find free or Open Education Resources for adult learners, notably in the OER Commons “Adult Education” level, and there have been some efforts to create new lesson plans for adult learners by teachers using a Google Documents tool and a HyperDocs template. While all of these are useful efforts, none have a vision that is large enough to address the challenge, to meet the needs as teachers describe them.  \nOne promising solution that will provide a free searchable database ofOER, free and proprietary  \nCorrespondance: David J. Rosen, [djrosen@newsomeassociates.com](djrosen@newsomeassociates.com) 75  \ninstructional resources, and that enlists adult basic skills teachers’ support in creating and/ or recommending existing free or OER adult basic skills education lesson plans and other instructional resources, is being proposed by CrowdED Learning. This article is a review of CrowdED Learning’s current website, how it came to be, what the project is intended to accomplish, and what free services it offers adult basic skills  \nteachers now. We also look at the free SkillBlox tool to be developed in 2019 to take on this challenge more comprehensively.  \nWhat is CrowdED Learning?  \nOn its website, it is described as “a non-profit organization determined to help adult educatorsand learners realize the promise of free and open educational resources by better aligning amazing content to the competencies and skills neede","cbCaigHiMbWG3pK5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigHiMbWG3pK5","pdf",137140,"English","# Description of the Challenge\n## Finding high-quality OER for adult basic skills teachers\n# A Possible Solution\n## Limitations of existing publisher sites and partial initiatives\n# What is CrowdED Learning?\n## Crowdsourcing to improve discovery and alignment\n# What Does the Name CrowdED Learning Mean?","[{\"question\":\"What is the main challenge addressed for adult basic skills teachers?\",\"answer\":\"Teachers struggle to sort through many instructional resources online to find high-quality materials that match the subject, student level, and required content standards.\"},{\"question\":\"Which types of technology solutions are discussed in the article?\",\"answer\":\"The article mentions hardware (desktop/laptop computers, smartphones, tablets, VR goggles, electronic whiteboards) and digital software such as websites, course or learning management systems, databases, and mobile apps.\"},{\"question\":\"How does CrowdED Learning propose to solve the resource-finding problem?\",\"answer\":\"CrowdED Learning aims to create a free searchable database of OER and instructional resources while enlisting adult basic skills teachers to support creation, recommendation, and curation through crowdsourcing.\"}]","Adult Literacy Education Spring 2019 - Technology Solutions for Adult Basic Skills Challenges - The CrowdED Learning Solution | PDF",1792066017,13]