Curriculum Offers: NROC
NROC for Adult Education
The NROC Project has been actively working with adult education leaders to develop web-based tools that engage, inspire, and support today's adult learners.To learn about adult education specific goals and more, visit the NROC for Adult Education information page.
NROC Professional Development
The NROC Project offers ongoing professional development opportunities that are free and can be accessed by anyone. To learn more, visit the NROC Project Professional Development page.
Developmental English
This course is designed for students striving to meet basic college entrance requirements. The integrated curriculum, spanning reading comprehension, writing, vocabulary building, and grammar skills, allows students to practice strategies for reading and writing effectively.
To learn more about this course, visit the NROC Project English page.
Select this link to view the course flyer which includes a description of each course component.
To view as sample of the course, visit the NROC Project English page and click on the PREVIEW THE COURSE button. After completing a brief form, you will gain access to the sample course content.
This course is available for use on OTAN's Moodle site at AdultEdCourses.org.
Developmental Math
This course is designed for students striving to meet basic college entrance requirements. The adaptive pre-assessment personalizes a learner's path through Arithmetic, Beginning and Intermediate Algebra, and Statistics, Geometry, and Trigonometry topics.
To learn more about this course, visit the NROC Project Math page.
Select this link to view the course flyer which includes a description of each course component.
To view as sample of the course, visit the NROC Project Math page and click on the PREVIEW THE COURSE button. After completing a brief form, you will gain access to the sample course content.
This course is available for use on OTAN's Moodle site at AdultEdCourses.org.
EdReady
EdReady is a math and English readiness system that employs a knowledge inventory to personalize a learner's path to subject mastery within the context of a specific educational goal. Edready can:
- determine a student's readiness to take college-level math and/or English courses.
- provide the resources a student needs to improve math and/or English knowledge.
- help a student to manage and achieve academic and employment goals.
- identify colleges, universities, or programs that are appropriate for your skills and interests.
- prepare you for specific equivalency or standardized exams, such as the GED©./HiSET©./TASC©, TABE, CASAS, and Accuplacer©.
Please contact Penny Pearson (ppearson@otan.us) or Neda Anasseri (nanasseri@otan.us) at OTAN to get started with your agency's personalized EdReady page at https://otan.edready.org/home.
EdReady Math Pathways
It's a common story: A person sets out in pursuit of a degree or job track only to hit an immediate roadblock—their current math skills don't measure up to the requirements of a particular program of study or vocation. That's why NROC developed EdReady math pathways—152 goals aligned to the most common career and certificate programs in the United States.
EdReady, a personalized learning system, helps students gain the math readiness required by their degree or job aspirations, providing a concise study path unique to their goals.
View the EdReady Math Pathways Alignments by Category
Anecdotes From The Field - Read a case study about how EdReady helped a group of Inland Career Education Center Adult Education welding students master the math skills necessary to pass the national Beginning Welding Certification.
HippoCampus
HippoCampus is a curated repository of over 6,800 multimedia learning objects—including videos, animations, and simulations—in math, science, social science, and humanities subjects from NROC and other respected providers, including Khan Academy, PhET, and NOAA.
Visit the HippoCampus website at http://www.hippocampus.org/?user=myOTAN.
HippoCampus also has a landing page that is unique to adult educators at https://www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/Arithmetic?user=myAdultEd. There you will find the most recent playlist tutorial video.
For the last several years, OTAN has been a valued member of The NROC Project—a non-profit organization focused on supporting student success through the implementation of quality media-based resources. Through our ongoing partnership, WIOA-funded sites within the state of California receive added benefits, such as:
- Ability to pilot NROC content and tools for free.
- Access to over 7000 learning objects via HippoCampus.
- A 10% discount on all site-specific NROC memberships.
- Invitations to professional development opportunities and access to a library of previously recorded webinars.
Contact OTAN by email: support@otan.us or phone at 916-228-2580 for more information.