“I am preparing a project for an innovation approach to learning. I am a PhD student in the UK. We are very committed with education and teacher professional development as well as a PGCE program. What I do not know is if the team has to have a company already established for submitting? And the team for the moment is composed of two PhD students one in computer science and me in math education with the support of one faculty member. Would that be ok?”
This is the first query we have received, and it comes before the Open Education Challenge has launched. No and yes are the answers. No, you don’t have to have a established company to start submitting. And yes, it will be OK.
However, this potential applicant’s questions made me think more in depth about who the true innovators are in education.