Online Learning Resources

Planning for Distance Learning

Online Learning Curriculum Providers

Aztec is Here to Help: For organizations not already an Aztec customer: Aztec is offering FREE access for a limited number of concurrent students in a simple administration system, which allows you to easily track student progress and securely manage user access. For existing customers with the full administration system: Aztec will provide you with some flexibility, which may include payment deferrals and/or discounted licenses to address your increased capacity needs. www.aztecsoftware.com/

Burlington English: Offering the option to purchase a 3 month license for $24/seat with a 4th month at no additional cost. ($6/seat/month) Contact your rep for more information: www.burlingtonenglish.com/contact/

Cell-Ed: Offering THREE Options in response to the COVID-19 epidemic:

  1. FREE Cell-Ed Coronavirus Guide in English/Spanish you can call into on any mobile phone to get expert information in minutes in easy to remember micro-lessons to protect everyone. cell-ed.com/covid19c

  2. Free Cell-Ed UNLIMITED for 90 Days for a limited number of new partners and includes 1000+ hours of full programming+certification+live coaching

  3. Cell-Med COVID-19 Crisis Response

Essential Education: Offering short-term, online course licenses at a discounted rate. For just $8 (or less) per seat. Free training webinars

Learning Upgrade: www.learningupgrade.com Our Remote Learning Access Plan for Learning Upgrade. With many education providers now required to teach exclusively online, our plan enables you to provide all steps of instruction remotely with students using their smartphones and devices. This webinar will train teachers to remotely self enroll their students, view class reports, and reward student achievement. Enroll in the webinar here: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Hi8rmOEXRSK6hqmvKCECSA

Voxy: Voxy's COVID-19 response here: https://voxy.com/blog/2020/03/launching-interim-online-english-programs/

Voxy seeks to support our partners and adult education programs across the U.S. by offering greater flexibility in our product and service offerings. While Voxy usually sells annual transferable licenses, because programs need greater flexibility at this time, we are able to pro-rate our nonprofit and educational pricing options and offer (3) month programs instead of the typical (12) month licenses. We will also be offering completely virtual launches and increased ongoing professional development workshops for teachers and administrators as they adapt to delivering 100% online models of program delivery (likely every Thursday going forward).

We are Teachers - 190+ Online Learning Resources (FOR ALL AGES Pre-K - Adults): https://www.weareteachers.com/free-online-learning-resources/

Free eBooks and Audiobooks for Kids and Adults - Article from USA Today with links and info: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/03/28/coronavirus-free-ebooks-audiobooks-while-self-isolating/2928056001/

American Institutes for Research (AIR)/AIR’s Adult Education Research and Technical Assistance Center (AERTAC): Access copies of issue briefs, companion learning resources and additional resources https://www.air.org/center/adult-education-research-and-technical-assistance-center-aertac#covid.  Among the featured resources are two new issue briefs on Digital Literacy and Health Literacy, produced by AIR for Teaching Skills that Matter, a current OCTAE initiative.   

Communication Tools/ Software

Zoom: www.zoom.com FREE Videoconferencing
Students or teachers who fill out an online form using their school email addresses and are then verified by Zoom will have any accounts associated with that school’s domain also gain unlimited temporary meeting minutes, according to a site set up for the process overnight. 

Webex Online Help (contains a link to a Community of Practice, how to contact Webex for help, and training webinars): help.webex.com/en-us/

The following two links appear to have been developed specifically in reponse to the COVID-19 pandemic –

WhatsApp: www.whatsapp.com WhatsApp Messenger or simply WhatsApp is a freeware, cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP service owned by Facebook, Inc. It allows users to send text messages and voice messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other media. 

Upcoming Webinars

  • Burlington English: FREE Webinar 2x/day 11:30am CST, 6pm CST (See link here for our e-blast with registration link within e-blast) on 5 Easy Steps to Serve Students Online. Basically, the “how do I get started creating a plan?” for this new virtual learning environment. conta.cc/38RiZ7u

  • Ashly Winkle, LCOT curated a list of upcoming webinars that focus on moving teaching online. Check it out! wakelet.com/wake/ace9aaa7-a029-45d0-8875-96844f2c957a

Online Curriculum and other Resources

Actively Learn: www.activelylearn.com/ Our curriculum platform will be free for the remainder of the school year to help you meet the unique needs of distance learning 

Coronavirus Lesson Plan: Florida Literacy Coalition. Thanks to the FLC for sharing these lesson plans!
floridaliteracy.org/pdf-docs/Coronavirus%20Resources%20for%20Adult%20Learners.pdf

GCFLearnFree: Learn and develop the skills needed to advance in work and life. GCFLearnFree

Izzit: www.izzit.org/index.php
Izzit.org is an educational initiative of the Free To Choose Network, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit producer of television documentaries. Join for free! U.S. educators can also get a free DVD every school year. Almost all of our videos can be streamed or downloaded by educators. Your students can stream the videos even WITHOUT logging in with your class code. We also have Current Events lessons that will work well with your out-of-school students.

Newsela: newsela.com/about/distance-learning/ We’re offering free access to Newsela’s entire product suite for the rest of the 2019/2020 school year.

Northstar: Making Basic Computer Skills training free
www.digitalliteracyassessment.org/news/2020/03/nsol-publicly-available-covid-19

SkillBlox: A free, first-of-its-kind learning plan generation tool that pulls together learning materials both from publisher resources and free and open education resources (OER) and organizes them by skill to provide an increased range of learning options for students. www.crowdedlearning.org/skillblox

Teachercertification.com: Resources for teaching students with disabilities

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