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Updated Self-Paced LINCS Courses - Now Available! #AEFLWeek

Today, in honor of Adult Education and Family Literacy Week and in partnership with the Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS), the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education (OCTAE) is eager to announce the launch of three (3) updated self-paced professional learning courses. LINCS Courses are open-access via a web-based learning platform that provides professional development for adult educators and practitioners.

The courses offered through LINCS Courses are freely available to educators and administrators. There are over 38 self-paced and evidence-based online courses available for use anytime, anywhere. Each course is virtually facilitated, though registration is required.

Kick off your #AEFLWeek by accessing any of the recently updated or existing professional learning courses via LINCS Courses! The three (3) updated courses are: 

  • Engaging Adult Learners in Science - This course explores the relevance and importance of scientific literacy in the lives of adult learners and presents eight practices to support scientific thinking in our everyday lives.
  • Integrating Technology in the Adult Education Classroom - This course offers tools and guidance to support purposeful planning for technology integration and digital literacy development to fit one’s own instructional context.
  • Teaching Energy Literacy to Adult Learners - This course introduces the Energy Literacy Framework (available in English and Spanish) developed by the U.S. Department of Energy as a tool to explore the role of energy in our lives and to generate potential interest in energy as a career field.

As an added bonus this #AEFLWeek, we also want to let you know that you should be on the lookout for three (3) NEW courses that will soon be available! The three (3) new courses coming soon are: 

  • Supporting Postsecondary Transitions Through Contextualized Instruction - This course will focus on classroom practices to support adult learners with the readiness skills needed for postsecondary success. 
  • Supporting Adult Learners to Sustain and Persist Beyond Enrollment - This course will explore various approaches to help identify and provide support services for adult learners to assist with student persistence and positive outcomes.
  • Trauma-Informed Social-Emotional Learning and Teaching - This course will look at the effects of trauma and toxic stress on learning and identify concrete steps to help create a healing-centered learning environment.

As a reminder, these and all other self-directed online courses on LINCS Courses are available for download should you wish to offer them for professional development through your State’s learning management system. For more information on accessing and downloading these courses, please contact the LINCS project team at training@lincs.ed.gov. 

Keep your eye on LINCS Courses, this #AEFLWeek and all year round!

Happy #AEFLWeek!