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OLC Launches Digital Learning Innovation Prize

Supported by $2.5 Million Gates Foundation Grant.

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The Online Learning Consortium is pleased to announce a new prize competition which will recognize exemplar higher education faculty and institutions for advancing and adopting next-generation digital courseware with a strong pedagogical focus and sustained impact on student success among underserved student groups.

The OLC Digital Learning Innovation Prize is supported by a $2.5 million grant OLC has received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the purpose of fostering effective practices in digital learning targeted at improving outcomes for underserved students.

The inaugural OLC Digital Learning Innovation Prize competition will open in January 2016, with a call for applicants in two prize categories.

  1. Faculty-Led Team, a $10,000 Digital Learning Innovation Prize
  2. Institution, a $100,000 Digital Learning Innovation Prize

Detailed information regarding the prize competition, including judging, requirements, submission guidelines and resources for preparing applications will be available on the OLC website in December.

For more information, please visit our website. We are excited to share more details as they become available.

Best regards,

Kathleen Ives, D.M.

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CEO and Executive Director, The Online Learning Consortium

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