Global Competition Selects 19 Innovative Digital Media and Learning Projects to Share $2 Million

“We are developing a vibrant community of learning leaders that includes youth, international researchers, practitioners and theorists, non-profits and commercial enterprises and ranging across all the different fields from the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. It's starting to feel not only like a new field but an actual movement" said Cathy N. Davidson of Duke University, co-founder of HASTAC along with David Theo Goldberg of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. “The decision this year to include proposals from international sites and a competition among young innovators, 18-25, has revealed extraordinary range, depth and creativity” Goldberg noted. “It points to profound changes in learning, changes soon likely to challenge educational institutions in deeply transformative ways.”