Become a Cisco Connected Educator through CILC!

CISCO Connected Educator Logo Cisco Connected Educator Badge Curriculum is specifically designed to empower educators with high-quality collaboration tools to foster innovation and creativity in today’s digital learning environments.

A major component of the Cisco Connected Educator program provides a Professional Learning Network (PLN) in which members, through the use of the Cisco collaboration application, Webex Teams, share and discuss best practices pertaining to their teaching with collaboration technologies. The PLN will provide support to educators as they work on any one of the Cisco Connected Educator Badges.

The Cisco Connected Educator program is in partnership with the Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC). Some highlights include:

The program provides badges for teachers, content providers, and administrators and researchers who demonstrate their ability to use world-class video and collaboration technologies for better teaching and learning, content creation, administrative management, and research.
Teachers, students, administrators, and researchers earn Cisco Connected Educator badges by demonstrating their ability to use collaboration tools in their learning environments. They provide evidence of this ability in the form of written documentation and video artifacts of their experiences.
CILC will award Badge recipients with a one-year Cisco Webex license with full capabilities for multipoint video meetings, file sharing, messaging, and recording.
Badges are aligned with the ISTE standards and may be used to demonstrate competencies within educational institutions. (Aligned to ISTE Standards for Educators, 2017)

Earn a badge that you can post on your digital assets to show the world your accomplishment in the areas listed below.

Earn a Badge and receive a one-year Cisco Webex License!

Webex Teams is an app for continuous teamwork with video meetings, group messaging, file sharing and white boarding.

Benefits of Webex

All the tools, all the time, everywhere.
Start a meeting with a single tap.
Never miss a message.
Share files with anyone anytime.
Show. Don’t tell.
Always secure.

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