[NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2087] Specifics of computers accessible to adult learners

From: Ricardo Diaz (diazr@literacy.upenn.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 13:59:48 EDT


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Greetings:

I am looking for help in locating information that would detail what 
physical computer resources are available to adult learners in the US. I 
know that the goal is rather broad and have initially limited the search to 
what software and hardware a subset of computer labs in ABE and Adult ESL 
programs might have.

In the process of developing web based instruction for recent immigrants, 
we have needed to make minimal requirements to access the site and also 
predict what might be available when the web sites begin to go public in 
August of next year. Since we know that the access of adult ESL learners is 
probably related to what is available for their teachers, that information 
would also be helpful.

We have searched the last year of this distribution list, over the web at 
the typical search engines, in ERIC, Harnessing Technology to Serve Adult 
Literacy (http://www.alri.org/harness.html), NIFL site, 
http://www.literacyandtechnology.org/, etc.

Keywords used started out specifically but we've settled with /adult 
education/ and /technology/ to try to catch whatever subsection of a study 
that might contain some information. Can anyone suggest a more specific query?

Our last recourse will be to conduct our own survey so if anyone else is 
interested in cooperating either as a provider of info or as a collector of 
the information, please contact me.

Thank you

Ricardo



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Ricardo Diaz
Project Manager
diazR@literacy.upenn.edu

International Literacy Institute
National Center on Adult Literacy                       Literacy.org
University of Pennsylvania
3910 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-3111 USA

215-898-2100
(direct): 215-746-6746
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