Funding, Grants & Awards
Higher Ed Canvas Grants Aim To End 'Lossless Learning'
Instructure
has given its 2015
Canvas Grants to six college
and university educators who demonstrated in their submitted proposals
the best
ways to develop innovative programs and improve education. The winners,
who
were announced during the recent SXSWEdu conference March 9-12 in Austin, TX, will each receive
$10,000 grants to accomplish the tasks they have set out to achieve.
Stein said the theme reflects one of his company's goals, which is
to
eliminate the loss of information in the learning process — lost
instruction,
participation, engagement or assessment.
"Canvas Grants is aimed at helping anyone turn a great idea into
reality," he said, "whether that's by designing new technology or
testing instructional strategies that move us one step closer toward
lossless
learning. This year's theme encouraged educators to find new ways to
connect
technology to the face-to-face classroom and enhance the critical
feedback
loop."
This year’s higher ed Canvas Grant winners are:
Another component of the Canvas Grants program awarded similar
grants to 10
K-12 educators as well.
Instructure is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that created
the
Canvas learning management system.
About the Author
Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.