TDLS 2021 - Glossary

General

  • TDLS: Technology and Distance Learning Symposium

Audience

  • ADM: Administrators
  • STF: Support Staff or Other Staff (Transition Specialists, Counselors, Librarians, etc.)
  • TEA: Teachers

Program Strands

  • ABE: Adult Basic Education
  • ASE: Adult Secondary Education
  • AWD: Adults with Disabilities
  • ESL: English as a Second Language
  • PAA: Pre-Apprenticeship and Apprenticeship
  • STE: Short-term Career Technical Education
  • WFP: Workforce Preparation

Category Strands

  • EEA: Ensuring Equity and Access
    This session focuses on digital equity as a prerequisite to engage in digital learning, such as: access to digital devices, connectivity to high-speed internet, and developing digital literacy skills. Strategies for meeting the needs of diverse learners, including accessibility requirements, UDL principles, and other topics may be covered as well.
  • DLF: Digital Learning Foundations
    This session centers on addressing the unique characteristics of adult learners, best practices in design and implementation of learning, connecting standards and practice, and professional development that supports staff in preparing for digital learning.
  • DLE: Designing Learning Experiences
    This session centers on selecting and using technology integration frameworks or models and digital tools (including LMS and OER) for communication, collaboration, learning management, and other functions to help students reach learning goals and outcomes.
  • DLM: Digital Learning Models
    This session centers on adult education digital learning models – distance education, blended and hybrid learning, and HyFlex or other flex models – and planning for and implementation of models that meet student learning needs.
  • OEA: Online Engagement and Assessment
    This session centers around specific techniques and strategies that focus on engaging learners in online environments, including the use of various digital assessment tools to inform instruction and enhance teaching and learning.
  • SSS: Student Support Services
    This session centers around student support services provided by agencies including student orientation, transition support services, human services (i.e., childcare, transportation), SEL, and other resources provided to learners with the aim of fostering a healthy, equitable, and inclusive learning community.
  • CRR: Corrections, Re-Entry, and Rehabilitation
    This session centers around technology integration and implementation in an environment with incarcerated adults or those placed on parole, in residential re-entry centers, and within rehabilitation facilities, particularly around the challenges of offering critical digital skills training to individuals.
  • PAC: Program Administration and Coordination
    This session centers on strategies for program development, improvement, or change management in a variety of areas, including personnel, instruction, partnerships, and vision, that transform digital learning at the agency.