National Adult Literacy Database

From the stockroom to the executive suite everyone is impacted by the need to constantly improve his or her digital technology skills. But sadly it’s the workers at the lowest levels, the ones who can least afford it, who suffer most and are the hardest hit by these changes.

This year's SCRABBLE® Corporate Challenge is on target to be a record breaker for Frontier College with more teams (60), a bigger venue (Sony Centre), and a goal to raise over $350,000 for Frontier College's literacy programs.

At the first of the Work and Learning Network’s 2011/2012 symposiums, John Servage drew on his 35 years of financial, IT, Internal Audit and Risk Management experience to present a rich case study, which described how a troubled group of workers used employee-driven learning to turn their department around. John described how he and his staff broke the department into inquiry teams, and empowered them to change the way they worked together.

A report by the Toronto Region Research Alliance finds that many students in Canadian universities go into their post-secondary education with hopes of a career in medicine or business. But in the Toronto region, there are only limited spots available for those jobs — and way too many graduates coming out every year, looking for work.

“We are building something that starts with Nunavut, so that the kids can see themselves, but they will also learn what they need to know about being a Canadian… and about being a global citizen,” said Cathy McGregor, director of curriculum and school services for Nunavut’s education department.

For many internationally trained professionals, the cost of licensing exams, training and skills upgrading can present a significant barrier to credential recognition. The Foreign Credential Recognition Loans Pilot will develop and test innovative projects that provide financial assistance to internationally trained professionals to lessen some of these financial burdens.

The Restigouche Community Business Development Corporation project will address the urgent need to develop workplace digital skills in small rural businesses. The organization will work directly with small and medium enterprises within rural regions to identify their distinct needs for digital skills.

"This new infrastructure puts the CCNB Bathurst campus in a better position to satisfy the training needs of its student clientele," said Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Minister Martine Coulombe. "Our challenge is to support co-operation among the colleges, industry, and the various stakeholders to ensure that the new seats generated by this ultramodern workshop meet the needs of the Chaleur region and of the province."

A sneak peek of a statue celebrating what would have been Northrop Frye's 100th birthday was unveiled Monday at Moncton's Capitol Theatre along with a list of authors and literary critics who will be attending this year's Frye Festival.

With every new year, countless individuals search for differentiating methods to demonstrate why they alone deserve a position or raise. Those who are successful have recognized the new reality of today’s career growth and job search.

The Active Reader series from Grass Roots Press is a comprehensive reading program that provides balanced, integrated instruction for adults, from emergent to pre-GED readers. The series is based on the premise that fluent readers actively engage with the text, using a variety of strategies.

President Obama is touting a new $8 billion Community College to Career Fund, co-administered by the Department of Labor and the Department of Education, that will help develop partnerships between community colleges and businesses to hit the two million worker target.

In a survey last year, nearly one-third of 300 Canadian senior managers said their biggest pet peeves about meetings were events that started late and ran long. Among other pet peeves were unnecessary meetings and attendees looking at their mobile devices.

Principles of Biology is a "born digital" textbook, with all materials designed specifically for consumption by students via browsers on desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Each of the 196 modules in the text is a self-contained learning experience, integrating text, images, interactives, and continual assessment, which feeds an automatic gradebook through which instructors can track student progress.

While Canadian educators believe that digital technologies can enrich students' learning, there are still significant challenges to overcome in making this happen - with one of the main barriers being students' lack of digital literacy skills.