Submissions Open for Canvas Grants
Instructure has opened submissions for its annual Canvas Grants, a program
that distributes $100,000 in grants to projects that spur innovation in
learning in both K-12 and higher education.
Jared Stein,
vice president of research and education at Instructure, said the focus this year will be on "lossless
learning."
Stein
said
lossless learning is a concept introduced at his company's
InstructureCon
this summer which aspires to eliminate the loss of information in the
learning
process — lost instruction, participation, engagement or assessment.
"Canvas
Grants
is aimed at helping anyone turn a great idea into reality," he said,
"whether
that's by designing new technology or testing instructional strategies
that
move us one step closer toward lossless learning."
Two
teams
of judges, one for higher ed and the other for K-12, will grant five
$10,000 grants to higher ed projects and 10 $5,000 grants to K-12
projects.
Last
year's
competition had more than 400 submissions with the winning entries
ranging from a Philadelphia administrator who wanted to help inner-city
students record stories about their communities and air them on TV to a
librarian who wanted to outfit a makerspace at her school with Legos and
MinecraftEdu.
Submissions
will
be accepted through January 23 and winners will be announced at the SXSWEdu conference in March in Austin, TX. For details, go to canvaslms.com.
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Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.