Open-call competition - field of digital media and learning

The MacArthur Foundation and UC Irvine, Duke, HASTAC are giving away $2million in awards for the following:

* Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards will support projects that demonstrate new modes of participatory learning, in which people take part in virtual communities, share ideas, comment on one another's projects, and advance goals together. Successful projects will promote participatory learning in a variety of environments: through the creation of new digital tools, modification of existing ones, or use of digital media in some other novel way. [...] Winners will receive between $30,000 and $250,000.

* Young Innovator Awards are designed to encourage young people aged 18-25 to think boldly about "what comes next" in participatory learning and to contribute to making it happen. Winners will receive funding to do an internship with a sponsor organization to help bring their most visionary ideas from the "garage" stage to implementation. [...] Winners will receive between $5,000 and $30,000.


Press release is here.

Sound like something your organization is doing? Check it out. These groups are doing really fascinating stuff.