DATA-ENABLED LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE

NIH RFA: Open Educational Resources for Biomedical Big Data

The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research education activities in the mission areas of the NIH.  The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research needs in utilizing'Big Data.'

To this end, this funding opportunity announcement encourages the development of creative educational activities with a primary focus on Curriculum or Methods Development.  In particular, this Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) FOA encourages R25 applications proposing the development of open educational resources (OER) for use by large numbers of learners at all career levels that enhance the ability of the workforce to use and analyze biomedical Big Data.

RFA-HG-14-009