Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) is a new initiative from JFF and World Education, with support from The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE), to better prepare adult education practitioners who support learners that struggle to fully engage in tasks that demand use of digital technologies. Through DRAW, we will provide the field with flexible, evidence-based, and piloted strategies and materials that help adult education practitioners build the digital literacy skills and digital resilience of adult learners. These efforts will help to ensure adult learners can obtain the digital knowledge and skills necessary for postsecondary education and training, employment, civic engagement, and economic self-sufficiency.
As part of this effort, we are conducting a landscape analysis to better understand the following:
- Initiatives, emerging practices, research, and existing resources to support digital literacy instruction
- Professional development for adult education practitioners looking to integrate instruction and assessment of digital skills into their contexts
- Gaps that exist in these areas and what investments are needed to better support the field
Input from a diverse range of field experts and stakeholders, including yours, will inform the design of our project aimed at advancing digital skills instruction and development and digital inclusion and equity among adults in the United States. At the end of the questionnaire you will have the option to indicate whether you would like your name to be formally recognized as a contributor to the scan. This questionnaire should take between 20-30 minutes to complete.
We would like to thank you for lending your time and expertise. At the end of the questionnaire, you will be invited to join our Advancing Equity in Digital Skills, Digital Learning & Employment Tech for Adults listserv to continue the conversation and collaboration to enhance digital literacy skills and instruction. You can also stay up to date on this project at https://edtech.worlded.org/our-work/draw/.
If you have any questions, please reach out to nicole.klues@safalpartners.com.
This questionnaire was produced under U. S. Department of Education OCTAE/DAEL contract GS10F0094X. The views expressed in this questionnaire do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education and its contents should not be considered an endorsement by the Federal government or the funding agency.