AALPD Webinar: A New Name and Definition to Describe Our Field - March 21 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time

In this webinar, David J. Rosen, Ed.D., will propose a new name for the field of adult basic education. He will lead a discussion to explore why a new name is needed, how a new definition could better support practitioners and adult learners working towards a variety of goals, and how the term Adult Foundational Education may be an optimal choice.

About the presenter
David J. Rosen, Ed.D., was Executive Director of the Adult Literacy Resource Institute at the University of Massachusetts in Boston from 1986 to 2003. Since then, as an independent consultant, he has been the moderator of two U.S. Department of Education-sponsored LINCS communities of practice: Integrating Technology, and Program Management. As an Associate of the EdTech Center at World Education, he has been the internal evaluator of the English Now! Learning Circles project developed by the World Education EdTech Center and funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, and an advisor to the English Now! national scale-up, also funded by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Dr. Rosen is a Subject Matter Expert and Team Leader for the Illinois Digital Learning Lab. He is also currently helping to develop a guide to Flex models (HyFlex and BlendFlex) for World Education’s IDEAL Consortium. He has been the lead author with Carmine Stewart of Blended Learning for the Adult Education Classroom published by Essential Education, and a co-author with Dr. Jen Vanek of “Technology for Innovation and Change in Adult Basic Skills Education,” a chapter in Turning Points: Recent Trends in Adult Basic Literacy, Numeracy, and Language Education, Jossey-Bass, Fall 2017. Also with Jen Vanek, he is co-author of The What, Why, Who, and How of Blended Learning for Adult Basic Skills Learners published online in May 2020, by New Readers Press. For several years, he was the author of the COABE Journal's technology column and is now the author of the Technology Solutions column in the Adult Literacy Education journal published by ProLiteracy.

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The presentation will last approximately 30 minutes, with time for questions. The monthly board meeting will follow the webinar. We hope you can join us!