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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...