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Tuesday 14th August 2007 4:00 am

Competition Launches: HASTAC calls for applications to new Digital Media and Learning Competition

The MacArthur Foundation is supporting the Digital Media and Learning Competition under the leadership of HASTAC (www.hastac.org).  Designed to support new projects that might not come to the Foundation’s attention through other channels, the Competition is designed to award $2 million in grants to enhance the field of learning enabled or advanced by digital media.

Awards will be made in the two categories of Innovation and Knowledge-Networking.  Innovation Awards ($100,000 and $250,000) will support learning pioneers, entrepreneurs, and builders of new digital learning environments for formal and informal learning. Knowledge-Networking Awards ($30,000 base award, to a total of $75,000 if budget warrants) will support communicators in connecting, mobilizing, circulating, or translating new ideas around digital media and learning. Entries to the Competition are due October 15, 2007.

Details and application requirements can be found at www.dmlcompetition.net.  If you have comments or questions about the Competition that you would like to share publicly, we would love to hear from you via this Spotlight Blog.

As the co-PI’s on this project, we would like to thank the MacArthur Foundation for supporting the Competition. We take this opportunity also to thank our teams at Duke and UCHRI:  Jason Doty, Erin Ennis, Mark Olson, Jonathan Tarr, and Brett Walters (at Duke) and Suzy Beemer, Khai Tang, Justin Tang, Jennifer Wilkins, Bahadir Gul and Yolanda Choo (at UCHRI).

We hope that you will use all your Web 2.0 skills and networks to spread the word about the Digital Media and Learning Competition--and we hope you will
think about applying.

Category: Civic-Engagement, Credibility, Ecology-of-Games, Identity, Race-Ethnicity, Unexpected

Tags: apply, award, competition, entrepreneur, funding, grant, hastac, knowledge-networking, pioneer

Comments

Cathy_Davidson
Posted on August 30 2007 11:38 AM

Of course, Radhika Gajjala.  It’s impossible to think of such a competition not including race and ethnicity and we have made a major effort to distribute the call to minority-serving associations and institutions.  If you have list servs that are appropriate, please help us by passing along the call.  Email me if you’d like me to send you a copy that is coded for maximum distribution to list servs.  And, DK, thanks so much for the interview.  It turned out really well.  I hope you have lots of listeners.