Thought this would be of interest to the list.
Warm regards
Catherine
Talis, a sponsoring member of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT),
launched the Talis Incubator for Open Education at the ALT Conference in
September http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2009/. The scheme provides funding of
up to £15,000 to help individuals or small groups who have “big ideas about
furthering the cause of Open Education”. www.talis.com/education/incubator.
Talis says supported projects will be required "to 'open source' the results and
return the intellectual property back to the community".
Potential projects that could be funded under the scheme include:
• Creation and publication of Open Education Resources for others to
use
• Creation of a new (or extension of an existing) open source software
tool allowing educators to author content
• Creation of datasets related to the field of Open Education - for
example, you could curate or publish data relating to all open syllabi as linked
open data
• Conducting a research study of how Open Assessment could be
applied to a particular subject area and submitting this to a relevant
conference
• Working towards the creation and adoption of open standards and
frameworks that support the adoption of Open Education.
Apologies for cross-posting
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