{"id":10139,"date":"2010-10-11T09:25:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T13:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=10139"},"modified":"2010-10-11T09:49:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T13:49:28","slug":"new-initiative-will-advance-the-best-uses-of-technology-to-improve-college-readiness-and-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/10\/11\/new-initiative-will-advance-the-best-uses-of-technology-to-improve-college-readiness-and-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"New initiative will advance the best uses of technology to improve college readiness and completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/press-releases\/Pages\/next-generation-learning-challenges-101011.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New initiative will advance the best uses of technology to improve college readiness and completion<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation<em><br \/>\nMulti-year \u201cchallenge\u201d grant competition will identify and fund most promising innovations<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">SEATTLE &#8212; The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the <a href=\"http:\/\/nextgenlearning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Next Generation Learning Challenges<\/a>,  a collaborative, multi-year initiative, which aims to help dramatically  improve college readiness and college completion in the United  States\u00a0through the use of technology. The program will provide grants to  organizations and innovators to expand promising technology tools to  more students, teachers, and schools. It is led by nonprofit EDUCAUSE,  which works to advance higher education through the use of information  technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Next Generation Learning Challenges released the first of a series of  RFPs today to solicit funding proposals for technology applications  that can improve postsecondary education. This round of funding will  total up to $20 million, including grants that range from $250,000 to  $750,000. Applicants with top-rated proposals will receive funds to  expand their programs and demonstrate effectiveness in serving larger  numbers of students. Proposals are due November 19, 2010; winners are  expected to be announced by March 31, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New initiative will advance the best uses of technology to improve college readiness and completion &#8212; from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation Multi-year \u201cchallenge\u201d grant competition will identify and fund most promising innovations SEATTLE &#8212; The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the Next Generation Learning Challenges, a collaborative, multi-year initiative, which aims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,211,3],"tags":[56,334,91,566],"class_list":["post-10139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-technology","category-funding-grants","category-higher-education","tag-educational-technology","tag-funding","tag-grants","tag-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10143,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10139\/revisions\/10143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}