The Digital Learning Materials site contains a variety of teaching and learning curriculum components, created, primarily, by the Internet Learning Community Projects in IU's Phase II.
The Scholar’s Box work began in Phase II and continues today, working to implement online tools that will allow teachers, students, and researchers to gather, organize and share resources in the environment of desk-top and Internet computing.
IU/CDL collaboration, formally initiated in 2003, is a key partnership, and a source of IU support for the Scholar's Box development effort.
The City|Watershed Project, funded in Fall 2003, is gearing up—see July's lead story. It aims to bring computer technologies to the established watershed education and restoration programs of its Bay Area partners.
Finally, in the right-most column, there are new links to campus and affiliate sites. And for those who wish to make a permanent link to an IU Home page or News page (which change the first Tuesday of every month) a persistent link has now been added to each of these pages.
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| IU Receives Major New Award from FIPSE |
 In September 2004 the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education announced that the UC Berkeley Interactive University Project will receive a major three-year grant from The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE). The grant provides funding to support innovative reform projects that hold promise as models for the resolution of important issues and problems in the world of postsecondary education
The IU award comes as the result of a submission in early 2004 to FIPSE’s Comprehensive Program. The Comprehensive Program supports innovative postsecondary education reform projects. Applicants were asked to identify problems of national significance and to propose solutions that can be replicated in similar settings. FIPSE looked for new strategies that improve upon what others in the field are already doing. The funded IU proposal, entitled The Scholar’s Box: A K-12/University Project to Create a Better Learning Object, will receive approximately $600,000 over the three-year duration of the work.
FIPSE supports applicants who demonstrate an awareness of what others in the field are doing and then build on proven and emerging concepts; it strives to fund innovative project ideas that have not been tried before; and it takes a national perspective when thinking about innovation. But, innovation by itself is often not enough. FIPSE challenges applicants to conceive, design, and manage significant projects in ways that promote sustained operations and growth, increase impact in other settings, and achieve other lasting and widespread impacts.
These FIPSE goals for improving education correlate well with IU goals. In its past and current endeavors, IU has explored collaborations and technologies that share resources from various archives and repositories with a wide-range of learners and communities, and this work has shaped a vision well suited to FIPSE support.
. . . Continue on to the IU News October 2004 page to read more about the IU's current and future work.
The Interactive University Project uses the Internet to open UC Berkeley's unique resources and people to California’s K-12 schools and citizens. Our goal is to use technology to democratize the content and community of the campus.
IU activities are coordinated by
UC Berkeley's IS&T
Information Systems and Technology.
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