Concord Consortium

 

The Concord Consortium is a group that was founded in 1994 as a nonprofit R&D organization to allow for a greater base of technology tools to be used in education. They are based in Concord, Massachusetts, and are sponsored and funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Libra Foundation, and the Noyce Foundation; as well as numerous private and independent donors.


The mission of the Concord Consortium is to, ". . . stimulate large-scale, technology-based improvements in teaching and learning."[i]  The group is active in creating “interactive materials that exploit the power of information technologies.”[ii]  Their work emphasizes the idea of “digital equity” - that is the precept of improving learning opportunities for all students.
 
Membership in the organization is free, and anyone involved in Instructional Technology and Educational Design may join. If you are interested, go to http://www.concord.org/membership.html and join the group.
 
The Concord Consortium is a broad based organization, who focuses on a number of industry topics. Currently, the projects being pursued by CC include: the CAPA Project, the ITSI Project, the LOOPS Project, the Molecular Rover Project, the Rhode Island ITEST Project, the Science of Atoms and Molecules Project, the TELS Project, and the UDL Science Project and can be found here: http://www.concord.org/work/projects/.
 
Tel: (978) 405-3200
Fax: (978) 405-2076 (main)
E-mail: info@concord.org
Mail: 25 Love Lane, Concord, MA 01742

[i] Team, C. W. (2005, March 7). Concord.org - Mission. . text, . Retrieved September 20, 2008, from http://www.concord.org/about/mission/.

[ii] CC Web Team. (2006, September 20). Concord.org - The Concord Consortium. . text, . Retrieved September 20, 2008, from http://www.concord.org/
 
 
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