Open Air

Inside the Talis Incubator

October 29th, 2009 Posted by: lukebeaman

Talis have produced a podcast of a review board round-table. The podcast provides insight into the Talis Incubator, as well as introducing members of the review board, commenting on their background and what they feel Talis can add to the area of Open Education.

For the unfamiliar, Talis is “an angel fund to further the cause of open education”. Talis launched at the ALT-C 2009 conference last month and provides funding of up to £15,000 to help individuals or small groups realise ideas which intend to further development of Open Education. In return, they request that all research and outcomes are returned to the community via ‘open source’.

Chris Clarke, Programme Manager for the Talis Education Division, gives an overview of the Incubator in the podcast – its motivations, some practical steps and time scales involved in applying and how the review board decides which submissions to take forward.

Other members of the review board involved in the podcast discussion are:

Prof. Andy Lane, former Director of OpenLearn at the Open University
(introduction at 00:08:30-00:12:30);

Steve Ryan from the Centre for Learning Technology at the London School of Economics and Political Science
(introduction at 00:12:35-00:15:16);

Dave Cormier from the University of Prince Edward Island
(introduction at 00:15:32-00:18:30).

The podcast runs for about an hour and is invaluable for anyone considering applying to the Incubator. To be considered for funding from Talis, you need to write a proposal according to the guidelines.

Direct mp3 download

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