CILT Design Principles

SEED GRANTS

CILT Seed Grants are given annually to support innovative multi-institutional projects that hold promise for advancing the learning technology field. A limited number of seed grants are available this year, in the range of $6,000 - $10,000 for promising proposals that emerge from the design principles interactive symposium.

Example Types of projects we would like to pursue:

Design principles authoring projects

Projects that focus on specific types of design principles (e.g. design principles for math, design principles for online educational tools, etc.)

Possible activities include:

Review exemplary software in the topic area

• Interview successful designers
• Select features and create principles
• Enter the information into the database and make appropriate connections

Design principles community projects

Projects that facilitate community building around specific areas of the database

Possible activities include:

• Critique connections and entries and help contributors respond to the critiques
• Identify gaps and overlaps in the database and facilitate remedies
• Discuss decisions about entries into the database and make selected issues public.

Design principles for commercial software projects

Projects that focus on the design principles used by commercial designers in a specific topic.

Possible activities include:

• Review exemplary commercial software in the topic area
• Interview successful designers and ask them to select features and create principles
• Enter the information into the database and make appropriate connections
• Explore similarities and differences between academic and commercial software products.

PROPOSALS:

• Proposals are due February 8, 2002.
• Recipients will be notified by March 8.
• Refer to the CILT Seed Grant Guidelines for process and proposal requirements.

For more information, please contact Yael Kali (yaelkali@yahoo.com) or Marcia Linn (mclinn@socrates.Berkeley.EDU).