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This is a short article describing the Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment project. It highlights the positive impact of grassroots, community based projects on learning opportunities for adults with digital literacy skill gaps.
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... users access the assessment modules through the open online portal: www.digitalliteracyassessment.org, making the assessment available to any English or Spanish speaker in the world (see Figure 4). Once there, a visitor can access an assessment module by clicking on a test icons and/or choose a language option (currently, English is the default and Spanish is the only additional option). ...
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