Talis understands the growing importance of the Open Education movement and its potential impact on how education is accessed, assessed and certified.
Aimed at individuals or small groups, the Talis Incubator for Open Education provides angel funding and other forms of assistance for ideas and projects that have the potential to further the cause of Open Education through the use of technology. All we ask in return is that you donate or ‘open source’ the intellectual property generated back to the communities that could benefit most from your work.
This year, the emerging technologies highlighted by the 2010 Horizon report as being particularly valuable for higher education are:
Mobile computing – on the 12 month horizon
Despite obstacles such as privacy and classroom management, more and more educators are exploiting the possibilities of collaboration and communication using students’ own mobile devices. After all, students like the [...]
Academics and students in the Australian higher education sector, like their UK counterparts, are increasingly turning away from institutionally provided tools and services in favour of those developed outside the sector by both commercial enterprise and the open source community.
Despite mainstream adoption, there is limited knowledge about who is using which Web 2.0 technology in [...]
We’ve received some exciting funding proposals for the Talis Incubator for Open Education scheme, where new ideas for Open Education can receive up to £15,000 in funding. However, we’ve also received a few emails from people who are struggling for time to meet the 31st December submission deadline. Seems that, like me, others are struggling [...]
Blogosphere
