What does it mean for a course to be “accessible”? What are some strategies for making online courses compliant with legal mandates, specifically, and more generally, welcoming to all students, including those with disabilities, who wish to engage in online learning offerings? Register for a CIRCL webinar on Designing Accessible Online Learning on November 7 […]
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Expanded White House Smart Cities Initiative
The White House just announced that it is expanding its Smart Cities Initiative with over $80 million in new Federal investments and a doubling of the number of participating cities and communities. These new investments and collaborations will help cities of all sizes in key areas including climate, transportation, public safety, and transforming city services. […]
NSF Smart and Connected Communities Solicitation
Preliminary Proposal Deadline Date: November 30, 2016 Full Proposal Deadline Date: February 16, 2017 NSF’s Smart & Connected Communities (S&CC) solicitation invites strongly interdisciplinary, integrative research and research capacity-building activities that will improve understanding of smart and connected communities and lead to discoveries that enable sustainable change to enhance community functioning. Note that this is […]
Register as an Expert for the European Commission
The European Commission appoints independent experts to assist with research and innovation assignments including the evaluation of proposals, monitoring of projects, and evaluation of programmes, and design of policy. Members of the cyberlearning community are invited to register as an independent expert to be potentially hired by the Commission to evaluate project proposals or review […]
NSF PFI:BIC Smart Service Systems
The newest Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) solicitation is out, this year again with a focus on partnerships with industry to perform research that advance out-of-the-box smart technologies, testing them in service systems. See the PFI:BIC solicitation Service systems are socio-technical configurations of people, technologies, organizations, and information [1] designed to create value […]
NSF DRK-12 Webinars
If you are interested in applying for NSF Discovery Research PreK-12 funding (NSF DR K-12), you are invited to attend one of three upcoming informational webinars: September 19, 2016, 4:00-5:00pm ET September 23, 2016, 2:00-3:00pm ET September 26, 2016, 1:00-2:00pm ET REGISTER TO ATTEND Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. The webinars, led by […]
Seeking Your Input on NSF Proposal Workshops
As part of our broadening participation effort, CIRCL is co-hosting a series of informational workshops on Developing NSF Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (CFLT) Proposals. The workshops target participants who have had no prior CFLT funding. This year’s goal is to conduct these workshops at Minority Serving Institutions and to co-host the workshops with their […]
NSF DCL: Societal Challenges
Through the a new NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Exploring Mechanisms to Enhance the Economic and Societal Impacts of Fundamental Advances in Information and Communications Technologies, CISE and SBE invite principal investigators to submit proposals for community workshops and EArlyConcept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) that will explore one of the different approaches outlined above to […]
Special Issue on Makerspace Design Cases
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Makerspace Design Cases (Deadline October 3, 2016) While lists of equipment and supplies for makerspaces are readily available to those seeking to develop a makerspace, resources documenting the design of a makerspace, the philosophy that informed the design, or the programs implemented within a makerspace are considerably less plentiful. […]
Edtech at DNC
Dr. Janice Gobert will showcase her educational technology at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to Senate and House of Representatives members. Gobert, who joined Rutger’s Graduate School of Education in 2015, is among five people selected to share their innovative research-based technologies for learning by SMART (Strengthening the Mid-Atlantic Region for Tomorrow), a bi-partisan group […]