Mark Otter

Mark Otter

Mark Otter is the CEO of Participate. He is a former educator passionate about community-based learning and digital badging.

Posts by Mark Otter

A new learning platform for Communities of Practice

Two professionals high five

For nearly a decade we have been creating new tools to enable people to design, grow and sustain Communities of Practice.

Read Story

Partners in Scaling Social Impact

As a full-service social impact agency, DoGoodery specializes in helping brands achieve their community and social impact goals. The small but mighty team that makes up the agency provides customized strategies and services to clients through a wide range of expertise in critical impa …

Read Story

Leveling the Playing Field and Powering Entrepreneurship

Black Girl Ventures Foundation is dedicated to creating access to social and financial capital for Black and Brown women-identifying founders and entrepreneurs.

Shelly Omilâdè “Omi” Bell found her calling in 2016: To level the playing field for women founders and entrepreneurs. To dismantle the barriers, Omi is leveraging the powerful principles of communities of practice (CoP). 

Read Story

Participate To Help Promote Upcoming “Jobs for the Future/W3C Verifiable Credentials Education Task Force Plugfest #2”

(Chapel Hill, N.C.) November 10, 2022 – Participate Inc., a social learning leader that designs and hosts communities of practice on its proprietary platform to impact workforce learning and development, today announced their participation in the Jobs for the Future/W3C Verifiable Cre …

Read Story

How a museum is shaping the future of learning and educator upskilling

The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI), a nationally recognized leader in creative approaches to STEM learning, partnered with Participate to build an online learning community for educators around The Pack--an open world video game that builds computational thinking (CT) competencies. …

Read Story

Participate’s newest update: Groups!

At Participate, we believe learning is a social activity, and we’re constantly looking for ways to improve the social learning opportunities within our Communities of Practice (CoP) platform. We’re thrilled to share the newest update: Groups!

Read Story