[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 18 | October 26, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]
The future of learning is personal and participatory, and technology enables new strategies and systems for meeting students, and administrators where they are. This keynote presents the barriers and the necessary innovations for ensuring the future is bright.
Karen Cator is the President and CEO of Digital Promise, and the former Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education from 2009-2013. During her tenure she led the development and broad dissemination of the 2010 National Education Technology Plan. She focused the office’s efforts on teacher and leader support through online community building, developing evidence of learning and of persistence based on new sources of data and analytics and supported innovation, entrepreneurship, and smart investment in the education sector. She has devoted her career to creating the best possible opportunity to learn for people of all ages.