This is an announcement from the Digital Media and Learning Competition organized by the MacArthur Foundation and HASTAC:

Call for entries for Digital Media and Learning Competition

The Digital Media and Learning Competition, now in its second year, is an effort to find novel projects that employ digital media in support of learning. This year’s competition, which focuses on participatory learning, opens the “Innovation in Participatory Learning” category to a list of pilot countries, China included.

The Innovation in Participatory Learning Awards will support projects that demonstrate new modes of participatory learning, in which people take part in virtual communities, share ideas, comment on one another's projects, and advance goals together.

Successful projects will promote participatory learning in a variety of environments: through the creation of new digital tools, modification of existing ones, or use of digital media in some other novel way. Submissions will be accepted from applicants in Canada, People's Republic of China, India, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, countries in which HASTAC or MacArthur have significant experience.

Winners will receive between $30,000 and $250,000.

The Competition website, which includes an online application system is at dmlcompetition.net. Details regarding the Innovation in Participatory Learning category can be found here; information about the entire competition is here.

The deadline for application is October 15 2008.