Social Impact and ROI Report: Every $1 of Cell-Ed Learning = $55 Social ROI
Social impact is that which is measured beyond GDP, financial reports, economic impact, or Guidestar metrics. It includes the impact on quality of life...
02 September, 2021
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What does ‘Learner Centered’ mean at Cell-Ed and how do we apply it every day?
Being “learner-centered” is the core of Cell-Ed’s philosophy for essential life and workforce skill development. Every aspect of Cell-Ed programm...
09 August, 2021
Innovative home-based digital care solution changes behavior & positively impacts social determinants of health
Social determinants of health, such as access to healthy foods and exercise opportunities, impact one’s ability to thrive – the earlier one sta...
13 May, 2021
Cell-Ed and the Barbara Bush Foundation Give Caregivers Tools to Improve Child Literacy and Transform Lives
Children who attain foundational literacy skills early in life are far more likely to achieve academic and professional success. When kids don’t have...
15 April, 2021
Cell-Ed Programs Improve Digital Literacy for Workers With Fragmented Digital Knowledge
It’s a situation those of us who have undergone COVID testing might relate to: you look online to find the nearest testing site and drive to the give...
11 February, 2021
Remote Healthcare for All: A Medical Association Teams Up With Cell-Ed Delivering Therapy to High Need Population
No one is surprised by the fact that healthcare is a basic human need, particularly during a pandemic. What is surprising, however, is the extent to wh...
28 January, 2021
COVID-19 Exposes Global Literacy and Access Gaps – Cell-Ed Co-Creates Mobile Solutions
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the global literacy gap, including digital and health literacy, fueled by the lack of digital access for all. While...
14 January, 2021
How Social Services use Cell-Ed for Work Readiness and Critical Communications
One of the most exciting things about our jobs at Cell-Ed is how we are able to change lives and work with amazing organizations that have the s...
03 December, 2020
Cell-Ed’s COVID-19 Impact Story – Critical Communications & Education
Everyone has their COVID-19 stories, when you first heard about it, how it impacted you and your network of friends – families – co-workers...
20 October, 2020
Cell-Ed’s Mobile Text-To-Audio Learning Platform Provides Free Coronavirus Guide For Hard-To-Reach Populations
Available in English and Spanish on any mobile phone – No data or internet required We know that millions of us in the US can’t get access to...
12 March, 2020
Top 9 questions to ask when evaluating mobile applications for Medicaid populations
Whether you are looking to increase Medicaid members’ adherence to medications or to reduce unnecessary and costly hospital visits, there’s increas...
29 August, 2019
EdTech Center field tested Cell-Ed
Field testing of Cell-Ed with immigrant service workers proved the potential and power of mobile learning to bring life and career-changing educational...
28 January, 2019
Teachers talk mobile learning
Maria Velarde is the head teacher and Anissa Reddick is the assistant teacher at Make the Road New York, the state’s largest immigrant organization t...
17 November, 2018
Learner-centered design for adult learners
After 20 years of designing and developing mobile experiences, there is one thing I am doggedly certain about: solutions will work if you solve for the...
10 April, 2018
3 overlooked questions to ask when looking for a mobile training solution for low-skilled workers
As you look to reach, retain and upskill your on-the-go and lowest-skilled workers, there are a handful of mobile solutions to evaluate in the ed tech ...
08 November, 2017
5 reasons why XPRIZE will drastically advance adult literacy
How are we going to clean the oceans? Convert CO₂ emissions into valuable products? Turn air into drinking water? XPRIZE is a nonprofit that uses glo...
04 August, 2017
How wrongly defining “low-skilled workers” torpedoes workforce development success
Words that I only heard sporadically at ed tech conferences a few years ago – “foundational skills,” “entry level skills,” &#...
25 May, 2017
Who believes workers are lacking in skills? Maybe workers do
“The jobs are there, but the skills are not,” one executive said during meetings last month between the President and manufacturing CEOs. W...
16 March, 2017
Reflections on eLearning, ‘lean learning’ & learner-centered mlearning
Thanks to Ajay Pangarka for his provocative piece, “eLearning is Dead! Long Live Lean Learning!”1 As a 20-year practitioner of Information Communic...
16 March, 2017
Poverty, prosperity, education and Cell-Ed
A recent World Bank report titled Poverty & Shared Prosperity 2016: Taking on Inequality1 makes for riveting reading if you are interested in how t...
21 February, 2017
Cell-Ed builds bridges and pathways with important immigrant partners
Cell-Ed continues to build bridges and pathways for #immigrants and #refugees to become full participants in a #democracy. #english #onthego. At a R...
04 February, 2017
So, this is success and what we strive for
Meet Senobia, an English second language learner from Texas and someone who symbolizes success. Senobia recently completed the Cell-Ed English course, ...
12 December, 2016
Standing Rock, Empowerment and Learning
Sunday, Dec 4 was important in the history of peaceful resistance in the USA. The halting of the Dakota Access pipeline at Standing Rock is a major vic...
05 December, 2016
Designing from the bottom up: a partnership with New York State’s Office for New Americans
The path to a powerful and enduring partnership is paved with important lessons that are worth sharing. Instead of building walls to keep people out, t...
29 November, 2016
US Elections, Jobs & Essential Skills
There is no lack of coverage on the recent US elections and the fractures they have caused among the populous. Fractures we can argue stem from very di...
21 November, 2016
A National Award for Cell-Ed Learners
“To study all I needed to do was call and I’d be studying within one second – anytime!” Briseida achieved 97% literacy using Ce...
20 November, 2016
The Power of Research in Designing and Delivering EdTech that Matters
Cell-Ed was pleased to be honored by Digital Promise and Teacher’s College at Columbia University for its use of evaluation research, which unde...
17 November, 2016
The Role of Technology in the School Education Value-Chain
Organization of American States Building Pathways for ICT in Education Conference Oct 20-21, 2016, St George’s, Grenada The Role of Technology in the...
14 November, 2016
Chief Global Officer presents at OAS ‘Building Pathways for ICT in Education’ Dialogue in the Caribbean
Senior Ministry of Education Officials from the Eastern Caribbean Sates and the Organization of American States convened a dialogue focused on the role...
24 October, 2016
From Precision Health to Precision Education, Co-Designing Solutions for Cancer Survivors
Collaboration is a driving force in Cell-Ed’s work. It is through collaboration that Latinas Contra el Cancer and Cell-Ed joined forces this past Sep...
22 September, 2016
Cities & Food Conference – The Role of mLearning and Cell-Ed
The University of the Fraser Valley (British Columbia, Canada), in partnership with The Aga Khan University (Kenya) and the Queen Elizabeth Scholars Pr...
15 June, 2016