Interested in designing the open education platform of the future?
by Philipp
We just opened sign-up for the Mozilla/Creative Commons/P2PU course on open education prototyping, and already more than 20 people have signed up. Great!
Course participants will be working on individual prototypes for open education projects. For those that want to take their ideas a step further, there might be a good opportunity to get funding from JISC.
In the context of P2PU, we have lots of ideas for innovative tech projects. If anyone is interested in pitching an idea together – please get in touch!
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_ calls/2009/03/309ricall.aspx JISC invites institutions to submit funding proposals for grants to fund technical rapid innovation projects addressing priority areas.
Proposals are sought under the following priority areas:
* Mashups of open data
* Aggregating tags and feeds
* Semantic web/ linked data
* Data search
* Visualisation
* Personalisation
* Mobile Technologies
* Lightweight Shared Infrastructure Services
* User Interface DesignBids for projects dealing with other areas that are relevant to the Information Environment are also welcomed.
Funding of between £15,000 – £40,000 for 6 month projects for up to 30 projects is available
The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12 noon on Wednesday 22 April 2009.
Funding is available for projects starting in early-mid June 2009 for 6 months. All projects must be complete by 30 November 2009.
Just wanted to say thanks for setting this course up. I’m looking forward to participating over the next few weeks. I’m sure I’ll learn a lot and it will help me focus my thoughts on open education.
Can I also add that I’ve set up a community site for anyone interested in the JISC #jiscri funding call (http://learninglab.lincoln.ac.uk/jiscri/). It’s to accompany the funding call document, which we re-published on http://writetoreply.org/jiscri where people can comment, ask questions and discuss the call. We’re working these sites up into a bid of our own, but really hope they’ll be of use to the JISC community.