Dr. Chip Donohue

Chip Donohue, Ph.D. is the Dean of Distance Learning and Continuing Education and Director of Technology in Early Childhood Center at the Erikson Institute in Chicago. In addition to his roles at the Erikson Institute, Donohue is a Senior Fellow and member of the Advisory Board of the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media at Saint Vincent College, where he co-chaired the working group that revised the 2012 NAEYC & Fred Rogers Center joint position statement on using technology and interactive media in early childhood programs. Donohue is the editor of the book,“Technology and Digital Media in the Early Years: Tools for Teaching and Learning,” co-published by Routledge/NAEYC and distributed to 20,000 NAEYC comprehensive members in 2014. In 2012 he received the first Bammy Award and the Educators Voice Award as Innovator of the Year from the Academy of Education Arts & Sciences, and in 2015, was honored as a children’s media Emerging Pioneer by the Kids At Play Interactive Awards.