Five universities were among the 10 winners of the Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration, announced this week. They will share $650,000 in prize money for “leadership in the collaborative development of open-source software tools with application to scholarship in the arts and humanities.”
The university winners were:
Duke University for the OpenCroquet open-source 3-D virtual worlds environment.
Open Polytechnic of New Zealand for several projects, including the New Zealand Open Source Virtual Learning Environment.
Middlebury College for the Segue interactive-learning management system.
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for two projects: the Firefox Accessibility Extension and the OpenEAI enterprise application integration project.
University of Toronto for the ATutor learning content-management system.
Other winners included the American Museum of the Moving Image for a collections-management system, and the Participatory Culture Foundation for the Miro media player.
The winners were announced at the fall task-force meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information, and awards were presented by the World Wide Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee. —Josh Fischman
2 Responses to Universities Clean Up at Technology Collaboration Awards
Geoff M. Pope - September 6, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Reminds me of a line in *Ash Wednesday* (by T. S. Eliot): “Teach us to care and not to care.”
Raphael - September 23, 2011 at 5:39 pm
[Yay, I can use my OpenID when logging in on some other blog!]
Thank you for your great response to my comment. I feared that I was misunderstanding your inflection on “caring”.
I like what you say about being “scrupulously truthful”; I have always thought this to be the only way to teach (yes, there _are_ stupid questions). I wonder, however: how can you be truthful and mindful at the same time? More people than not feel offended when you point out their mistakes in a straight forward manner. What do you do? Sweet-talk? Add disclaimers?
I was especially confused by a leaflet issued by administration which told us TAs to be mindful of the special needs of female students. Wait, what? They ask me to discriminate?