Long videos aren’t inherently bad, but they only work if designed with the brain in mind, using storytelling, breaks, and reflection to keep learners engaged. Chunking content, labeling runtimes, and balancing short- and long-form material helps learners process, retain, and stay motivated, even in distraction-heavy environments.

Cramming too much content onto a single screen overwhelms learners’ brains, especially in high-stress, distraction-heavy environments, causing important information to be forgotten. Spacing content across multiple screens with reflection, recaps, and manageable chunks boosts memory, attention, and motivation, turning scrolling into effective learning.

Longer-form courses can be engaging and memorable when designed with the brain in mind, using pauses, reflection, and clear lesson arcs to support attention and memory. By spacing content, varying cognitive load, and connecting new material to prior knowledge, even complex skills become manageable and stick with learners.

Shaka Senghor’s How to Be Free is now live on Edovo—weeks ahead of its official release. Based on his own journey through incarceration, the book offers powerful reflections and tools for healing from within.

Reentry isn’t a moment. It’s a steep climb with the odds stacked against people from the start. This blog breaks down the data behind the reentry cliff, revealing why so many fall back into the system and what it would take to truly set people up for success. Spoiler: it starts long before release.

Edovo’s completely revamped Knowledge Base gives education providers and facility staff the tools to turn great programming into effective, accessible digital learning behind bars. Packed with research-backed strategies, the Knowledge Base offers practical, easy-to-follow guides for designing engaging, trauma-informed education tailored to incarcerated learners. Whether you're building a statewide curriculum or a short reentry course, Edovo’s Knowledge Base helps you create meaningful learning that works—no instructional design experience required.

Incarcerated people often carry deep, unaddressed trauma—but healing is possible, even behind bars. Through a partnership with the Sounds True Foundation, Edovo now offers trauma-informed, evidence-based mindfulness and mental health resources that empower learners to reclaim dignity, build resilience, and access personal transformation from within correctional facilities.

Edovo’s new homepage offers a more personalized and intuitive experience designed to meet the unique needs of incarcerated learners. With simplified navigation, clearer progress tracking, and guided support from the first login, the update makes it easier for learners to stay motivated and reach their goals.

Childhood sexual abuse is a silent wound carried by many incarcerated individuals, but healing is possible. This blog explores the impact of early trauma and how Saprea’s course, 'How Do I Heal from Childhood Sexual Abuse?', is helping survivors reclaim their stories through education, self-compassion, and evidence-based tools.

This blog explores why access to education remains limited for many incarcerated individuals and what success looks like in expanding this access. It highlights key goals for the Unlock Day campaign, including systemic change, reaching one million more people, and creating lasting generational impact.

Edovo is launching its first-ever National Unlock Day on March 25, 2025, to expand digital education in prisons by encouraging people to share a 🔓 emoji on social media, with each post triggering a donation for one day of education. This blog outlines how you can get involved by spreading the word and posting the 🔓 emoji to unlock educational opportunities for incarcerated individuals.

Edovo’s GED Checklist: Your Path to New Opportunities course goes beyond test prep, helping incarcerated learners build confidence, study habits, and motivation that last well beyond exam day. By focusing on personal motivation, SMART goal-setting, and practical study strategies, the course equips learners with the tools to succeed—not just on the GED, but in life after incarceration.

Reentering society after incarceration is challenging due to financial and systemic barriers, but Edovo’s Resume Builder helps individuals prepare for job searches by creating professional resumes, improving their chances for stability.

Edovo and Worldreader's partnership helps incarcerated parents connect with their children through shared reading. Parents access books via Edovo tablets, while kids read along at home on Worldreader’s BookSmart app, strengthening bonds and literacy skills despite the distance.

The film Sing Sing from A24, inspired by the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program, brings a powerful story of transformation and resilience to incarcerated individuals through its historic tablet release. Paired with Issa Rae’s class on MasterClass and RTA’s reflective questions, it fosters creativity, introspection, and connection, offering a unique pathway to personal growth and meaningful conversations.

In 2024, Edovo achieved transformative growth, tripling its impact by transitioning to a nonprofit and expanding educational access to nearly 1 million justice-impacted individuals across 1,130 facilities. With a revamped brand and enriched curriculum, Edovo empowered learners with tools for personal growth, career readiness, and rehabilitation. Read the full 2024 Impact Report.

This blog offers a series of thoughtful conversation prompts designed to foster connection between incarcerated individuals and their families during the holiday season. The questions focus on topics like personal growth, emotional support, gratitude, and lighthearted fun, helping to strengthen relationships and provide comfort during difficult times.

Edovo provides incarcerated learners with tailored resources and structured learning paths to prepare for the HiSET and GED exams, empowering them to achieve high school equivalency and unlock future opportunities.

Edovo ensures incarcerated learners receive safe, transformative education through a rigorous content screening and evaluation process, prioritizing relevance, accessibility, and personal growth.

Edovo simplifies deployment across connected devices in correctional facilities, offering step-by-step guidance for integrating its transformative educational platform to empower justice-involved individuals.

Edovo helps create focused, impactful digital curricula for incarcerated learners by emphasizing clear, actionable objectives that guide course design, ensuring learners achieve meaningful and measurable outcomes.

Spaced repetition is an effective teaching method that reinforces key concepts through strategic reviews at intervals, helping incarcerated learners retain and apply knowledge more effectively.

Edovo supports in-person programming by integrating digital tools to streamline operations, enhance learning, and reduce administrative burdens through strategies like digital homework, prerequisites, and waitlist management.

This blog emphasizes the importance of diverse and well-crafted assessments to engage incarcerated learners and reinforce course material while ensuring clarity and real-world applicability.

Edovo enables correctional facilities to enhance volunteer engagement by digitizing content, allowing remote interactions, tracking learner progress, and streamlining volunteer contributions through targeted programming and analytics.

Edovo provides four content types—Courses, Resources, Assessments, and Surveys—that offer flexible learning and operational tools to meet the diverse needs of correctional facilities and their learners.

Edovo provides a range of personalized, evidence-based recovery resources to support incarcerated individuals with substance misuse.

Edovo's educational, vocational, and rehabilitative programs have a profound impact on incarcerated individuals. See the resuls of our 2024 learner survey.

Edovo learners who complete Modern States coursework can earn free college credits through CLEP exams, with options for proctored testing at facilities or after release, potentially saving time and tuition costs on their educational journey.

53 new LinkedIn Learning courses offers essential skills in areas like tech literacy, professional development, and business fundamentals.

Foster a greater sense of connection with your loved one by learning together with content available to you and the incarcerated on Edovo.

Edovo supports families with incarcerated loved ones. Learn together with free resources, celebrate progress and stay connected.

Correctional facilities across the nation are facing increasing pressure to provide effective programs that prepare incarcerated...

How to support incarcerated individuals and correctional staff over the holiday season.

At Edovo, we believe education transforms lives; join us in amplifying our mission through awareness, collaboration, and advocacy.

Suicide rates in U.S. jails are significantly higher than in the general population. Check out these resources to help.

Learn how to use Edovo certificates and transcripts to inform legal decisions and support rehabilitation efforts in the courtroom.

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by honoring culture and addressing challenges in the correctional system with education and dialogue.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month—raising awareness of the link between domestic violence and incarceration to break the cycle.

How Edovo and EDWINS are transforming incarceration through hands-on culinary training, career development, and dignity-first reentry.

Roadtrip Nation has spent over two decades inspiring people to explore careers through storytelling, digital tools, and project-based learning.

At Edovo, we believe in the transformative power of education. Each year, we strive to bring life-changing learning opportunities to incarcerated individuals, empowering them to build brighter futures for themselves, their families, and their communities. Dive into our 2024 Impact Report to see how the ripples of progress this year made waves of change.