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How Microcredentials Help Educators Develop New Tech Skills

EdTech Magazine

According to Karen Cator, president and CEO of Digital Promise , a nonprofit authorized by Congress and launched in 2011 by former President Barack Obama, teachers can use microcredentialing in at least three ways. . The digital option with microcredentials gives educators the flexibility of learning approach ,” Cator adds. “As

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Digital Promise Seeks Next CEO as Karen Cator Moves On

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Karen Cator, one of education’s quiet but most effective innovators, is leaving Digital Promise. And although Cator won’t divulge her plans, friends say that she’s heading back to the private sector. Just as Cator was getting started as a teacher, computers began rolling into schools. More on that below). She was a fan.

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The Year in Podcasts: Top EdSurge On Air Episodes of 2018

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We talked with high-profile education and tech leaders—including Cory Doctorow, Angela Duckworth and writer John McPhee. But to our surprise, this writer, John McPhee, doesn’t really consider himself a teacher at all. We sat down with Karen Cator, CEO of Digital Promise, to get her take. Subscribe here.)

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Connected Educator Month - Week One's Amazing Schedule!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Department of Education’s Connected Educators initiative, coming out of Director of the Office of Educational Technology Karen Cator''s working group on "online communities of practice." All activities are free! Connected Educator Month is a U.S. psid=2012-08-01.0752.M.62D73030E5121CEE0A533065156991.vcr&sid=2008350