In 2001, the National Science Foundation provided $2.1 million in funding for the Virtual Agora Project, a three-year exploration of the effects of online and face-to-face democratic deliberation. The project seeks to shed light on deliberation's effects on individuals, the community, and decision quality as well as how best to use technology to achieve positive outcomes. Of special concern to the project is determining whether deliberation builds better citizens. This paper describes the research design of this project to stimulate future research on deliberation.
Doug Breitbart on 13 Sep 13The Small Business Administration, in partnership with the Department of Education, Health and Human Services, and the National Science Foundation, is hosting a web conference on February 1st at 11am (EST) that highlights exciting funding opportunities in the field of Education Technology. This web conference is the first in a series that is designed to reach out to entrepreneurs, researchers, and small businesses that may be unfamiliar with various funding opportunities in the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The SBIR program is a highly competitive program that encourages domestic small businesses to engage in Federal Research/Research and Development (R/R&D) that has the potential for commercialization.
