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Download full textWayne State Univ., Detroit, MI. Coll. of Education. – 1997
Project ALERT (Adult Literacy Enhanced & Redefined through Training) was a 3-year effort to develop and deploy a number of innovative approaches to delivering workplace literacy programs to business partners, including manufacturers and unions. The project designed, developed, and implemented workplace literacy programs tailored to the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Diffusion (Communication), Educational Innovation, Information Dissemination
Thomas, Audrey M. – 1990
This report profiles 13 exemplary adult literacy programs and 6 innovative practices throughout Canada. Compiled through personal contacts of the researcher and knowledge of the field, the programs described represent institutional programs, workplace programs, and community-based programs. For each of the programs, the following information is…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Demonstration Programs, Educational Improvement
Smith, Christine; Bingman, Mary Beth; Hofer, Judy; Medina, Patsy – 2002
The Practitioner Dissemination and Research Network (PDRN), a multi-year research and development effort, tested an innovative method of connecting research and practice. Included in the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy 1995 proposal, it began with an advisory group meeting in 1996. In 1997, South- and Northeast regions…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Cooperation
Brickman, Alan; Braun, Linda W.; Stockford, Marge – 2000
An evaluation (involving questionnaires, telephone interviews, focus groups, site visits, e-mail questions, and lab observation) assessed the success in implementing a statewide technology plan for adult literacy programs in Massachusetts that grew out of a set of recommendations developed by the Massachusetts Adult Literacy Technology Team…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Principal Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific. – 1988
A workshop was conducted to examine educational materials developed in countries in Asia and the Pacific in order to make available exemplary materials to share with other educators in the region. This booklet is a product of that workshop. It includes an overview of the innovative materials selected and two chapters describing innovative projects…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Distance Education
National Inst. for Literacy, Washington, DC. – 1999
This packet consists of materials related to Equipped for the Future (EFF), a national, customer-driven, grassroots, standards-based adult literacy system reform initiative of the National Institute for Literacy. "EFF Background Materials" compares the traditional and EFF views of what adults need to know and explains what EFF standards…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Citizen Role, Communication Skills
Askov, Eunice N.; Johnston, Jerome; Petty, Leslie I.; Young, Shannon J. – 2003
This monograph examines benefits, challenges, and methods of expanding access to adult literacy with online distance education (ODE). The following are among the topics discussed: (1) reasons for considering ODE (new technologies and delivery systems in education; ODE in higher education, business training, and adult basic education; state-level…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy
