winners

Check out the Digital Media and Learning Competition winners' blog to see what these 17 great projects are up to . . . A new Competition will be announced in late August. For a glimpse of some participatory learning in action, check this out now: http://www.dmlcompetition.net/blog/

The HASTAC-MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition was announced publicly on August 15, 2007. The Competition closed October 15, 2007, with an overwhelming number of applicants. We had planned for approximately 300 applications, and received more than triple the prediction. The range and diversity were extraordinary, as we have conveyed in earlier blogs in this series. Each application was read by two initial judges, scored, and ranked. The finalist pool of 80 proposals was scrutinized and discussed in detail by 10 experts. We ended up awarding 17 stellar projects. We hail all the applicants, and heartily congratulate the winners.

We’re counting down to the announcement of the Competition winners on February 21. Now we offer a few insights into what the field of Digital Learning looks like from the vantage point of 1010 applications.

t has been an amazing hundred days: from closing the competition to selecting the first cohort of seventeen winners of the HASTAC/MacArthur Digital Media and Learning Competition. While we are finalizing the last details of the Competition, we will offer a few blog postings about the process, the field, what we have learned, and what we will be looking for in future competitions.