2009 Digital Media & Learning Competition Winners

The Digital Media and Learning Competition, now in its second year, is an annual effort designed to find -- and to inspire-- the most novel uses of new media in support of learning. In April 2009, the Competition awarded $2 million to individuals, for-profit companies, universities, and community organizations for projects that employ games, mobile phone applications, virtual worlds, social networks, wikis, and video blogs to explore how digital technologies are changing the way that people learn and participate in daily life.

To broaden the search for innovative ideas, this year's 2009 Competition was expanded to include international submissions and proposals from young peopleYoung Innovators aged 18-25.

The 19 final winning projects are those that best engaged the theme of "participatory learning," or the ways in which new technologies enable learners to contribute in diverse ways to individual and shared learning experiences. In the years ahead, these winners will help build the field of digital media and learning by sharing, discussing, collaborating and innovating across institutions, countries, continents and timezones.

We invite you to join HASTAC and be part of our community of digital media and learning, a network of networks committed to the creative uses of technology.