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CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5741

Deadline:
May 26, 2010
For Type 1 proposals from submitting organizations located in states or territories beginning with A through M.

January 14, 2011
For Type 2 and 3 proposals and for TUES Central Resource Project proposals.

Funding:
Type 1 Projects – 70 to 75 awards expected, each with a duration of 2 to 3 years. The total budget may not exceed $200,000 ($250,000 when four-year colleges and universities collaborate with two-year colleges).

Type 2 Projects – 20 to 25 awards expected, each with a duration of 2 to 4 years and a budget that fits the scope of the project. It is expected that the total budget for the majority of awards will be $300,000 to $600,000.

Type 3 Projects – 3 to 5 awards expected, each with a duration of 3 to 5 years and a budget that fits the scope of the project. It is expected that the total budget for the majority of these awards will be $1,000,000 to $5,000,000.

Estimated Number of Awards: 94 to 108 including 70 to 75 Type 1 awards, 20 to 25 Type 2 awards, 3 to 5 Type 3 awards and 1 to 3 TUES Central Resource Project awards

Synopsis:
The Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (TUES) program seeks to improve the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all undergraduate students. This solicitation especially encourages projects that have the potential to transform undergraduate STEM education, for example, by bringing about widespread adoption of classroom practices that embody understanding of how students learn most effectively. Thus transferability and dissemination are critical aspects for projects developing instructional materials and methods and should be considered throughout the project’s lifetime. More advanced projects should involve efforts to facilitate adaptation at other sites.

The program supports efforts to create, adapt, and disseminate new learning materials and teaching strategies to reflect advances both in STEM disciplines and in what is known about teaching and learning. It funds projects that develop faculty expertise, implement educational innovations, assess learning and evaluate innovations, prepare K-12 teachers, or conduct research on STEM teaching and learning. It also supports projects that further the work of the program itself, for example, synthesis and dissemination of findings across the program. The program supports projects representing different stages of development, ranging from small, exploratory investigations to large, comprehensive projects.

CFP: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pag.html

Deadline: May 18, 2010

Award: up to $6,000 for 18-month projects

Preservation Assistance Grants help small and mid-sized institutions—such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, cultural organizations, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities—improve their ability to preserve and care for their humanities collections. These may include special collections of books and journals, archives and manuscripts, prints and photographs, moving images, sound recordings, architectural and cartographic records, decorative and fine art objects, textiles, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, furniture, historical objects, and digital materials.

Preservation Assistance Grants may be used for purposes like these:

• General preservation assessments
• Consultations with professionals to address a specific preservation issue, need, or problem
• Purchase of storage furniture and preservation supplies
• Purchase of environmental monitoring equipment for humanities collections
• Education and training

CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10532/nsf10532.htm

Deadline: April 27, 2010

Funding: 9-12 awards from $5,000,000

Categories: Demonstration, Implementation, Diffusion projects

Note:  Limited submission, letter of intent to OVPR by 2/15 and pre-proposal due 3/12/10.

CFP: http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/idc/cfp.cfm

Award: $15,000 each or $60,000 for collaborative, interdisciplinary project

Must register and attend a pre-submission workshop

Update: this program was suspended:

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/newsroom/detail.cfm?NewsId=2092

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This year, the Instructional Development Center is still committed to cultivate the constant pursuit of innovative approaches utilizing teaching and learning technologies. The primary goal of this grant program is to support projects that investigate creative, innovative and technologically sophisticated uses of new digital technologies and have strong prospects for successful implementation, continued use, high impact instructional effectiveness and student success. For the 2010-2011 Grants selection, we expect to fund multiple projects up to a maximum of $120,000. The program is seeking to fund two types of project proposals:

Emerging Technology High Impact Award
$60,000 will be awarded to a multi-faculty, cross-disciplinary project that addresses the strengths and limitations of applying innovative technology in an interdisciplinary environment, creating a sustainable framework that ensures continued use and high measurable impact for future campus-wide implementation in support of teaching and learning.

Technology Innovation Award
To continue the supporting role for innovation in technology for teaching and learning, this grant program will also fund awards of a maximum of $15,000 to individual faculty project proposals that advance the ground-breaking use of technology for integration in the curriculum.

CFP: http://www.dmlcompetition.net/

Timeline: http://www.dmlcompetition.net/timeline.php

Preliminary applications for the 2010 MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition are due January 22nd. Applications must be submitted online at www.dmlcompetition.net/fastapps/login.php.

The competition will award $2 million in grants for new ideas to transform learning using digital media. It seeks designers, inventors, entrepreneurs, researchers, and others to build digital media experiences — the learning labs of the 21st Century — that help young people interact, share, build, tinker, and explore in new and innovative ways.

The competition is part of MacArthur’s digital media and learning initiative, which is designed to help determine how digital technologies are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life. More information can be found online at www.macfound.org/education or by downloading the information sheet (PDF).

CFP: http://imls.gov/applicants/grants/nationalLeadership.shtm

Deadline: February 1, 2010

Grant Amount: $50,000–$1,000,000; up to $100,000 for planning grants

Grant Period: Up to three years

Matching Requirement: 1:1 for requests over $250,000, except research projects. Cost sharing of at least one-third is encouraged for requests under $250,000 and for research projects.

National Leadership Grants support projects that have the potential to elevate museum and library practice. The Institute seeks to advance the ability of museums and libraries to preserve culture, heritage and knowledge while enhancing learning. IMLS welcomes proposals that promote the skills necessary to devlop 21st century communities, citizens, and workers.

Successful proposals will have national impact and generate results—new tools, research, models, services, practices, or alliances—that can be widely adapted or replicated to extend the benefit of federal investment. The Institute seeks to fund projects that have the following characteristics:

Strategic Impact—Proposals should address key needs and challenges that face libraries and museums. They should expand the boundaries within which libraries and museums operate, show the potential for far-reaching impact, and influence practice throughout the museum and/or library communities.

Innovation—Proposals should demonstrate a thorough understanding of current practice and knowledge about the project area, and show how the project will advance the state of the art of museum and library service.

Collaboration—While partners are not required in all National Leadership Grant categories, the Institute has found that involving carefully chosen partners with complementary competencies and resources can create powerful synergies that extend project impact. Proposals should show understanding of the challenges of collaboration and propose means for addressing them.

Applications may be submitted in the following categories: Advancing Digital Resources, Research, Demonstration, and Library and Museum Collaboration Grants.

Collaborative Planning Grants are also available in any of the four categories to enable project teams from more than one institution to work together to plan a project for a National Leadership Grant.

CFP: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10504/nsf10504.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25

Deadline: January 25, 2010

Funding: 8-18 new awards from $3,000,000 total funding. $50,000 to $400,000 per project in total costs (including indirect costs) for the period of the grant with durations up to three years.

A virtual organization is a group of individuals whose members and resources may be dispersed geographically, but who function as a coherent unit through the use of cyberinfrastructure. Virtual organizations are increasingly central to the science and engineering projects funded by the National Science Foundation. Focused investments in sociotechnical analyses of virtual organizations are necessary to harness their full potential and the promise they offer for discovery and learning.

The Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems (VOSS) program supports fundamental scientific research, particularly advances in social, organizational and design science understanding, directed at advancing the understanding of how to develop virtual organizations and under what conditions virtual organizations can enable and enhance scientific, engineering, and education production and innovation. Levels of analysis may include (but are not limited to) individuals, groups, organizations, and institutional arrangements. Disciplinary perspectives may include (but are not limited to) anthropology, complexity sciences, computer and information sciences, decision and management sciences, economics, engineering, organization theory, organizational behavior, social and industrial psychology, public administration, political science and sociology. Research methods may span a broad variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, including (but not limited to): ethnographies, surveys, simulation studies, experiments, comparative case studies, and network analyses.

VOSS funded research must be grounded in theory and rooted in empirical methods. It must produce broadly applicable and transferable results that augment knowledge and practice of virtual organizations as a modality. VOSS does not support proposals that aim to implement or evaluate individual virtual organizations.

Max Award: $75,000

Deadline: Jan 13, 2010

America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations grants support projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas, and beliefs that deepen the understanding of lives and the world. The Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways.

Grants for America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster learning among people of all ages. To that end, the Division of Public Programs urges applicants to consider more than one format for presenting humanities ideas to the public.

Planning grants are available for projects that may need further development before applying for implementation. This planning can include the identification and refinement of the project’s main humanities ideas and questions, consultation with scholars in order to strengthen the humanities content, preliminary audience evaluation, preliminary design of the proposed interpretive formats, beta testing of digital formats, development of complementary programming, research at archives or sites whose resources might be used, or the drafting of interpretive materials.

America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations grants support projects that are presented in the following formats:
1. Traveling exhibitions that are presented at multiple venues
2. Long-term exhibitions at one institution
3. Interpretive websites or other digital formats
4. Interpretation of historic places or areas
5. Reading and discussion programs
6. Panel exhibitions that travel widely, reach a broad audience, and take advantage of complementary programming formats (e.g., reading and discussion series, radio, or other media) to enhance the visitor experience
7. Other project formats that creatively engage audiences in humanities ideas

Applications that make innovative use of emerging technologies are encouraged. Projects must do more than simply provide a digital archive of material. They should offer new ways of contextualizing and interpreting information that engages public audiences interactively. Applications may, for example, include plans to create PDA tours and resources, podcasts, virtual environments, wiki formats, other formats that utilize user-generated content, virtual imaging, GIS mapping, online scholar-led discussions, streaming video, games, or other digital formats.

When it is relevant, applications must explain how user-generated postings to public cyberspace will be vetted by qualified scholars or project staff for accuracy and public educational value. Digital components must rest on sound humanities scholarship and enhance the project’s humanities content for the general public in ways that take unique advantage of the proposed formats.

Additional information can be found at the following URL:
http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AHCO_PlanningGuidelines.html