In 2014 the Gates Foundation funded two large grant projects of significance to The Maryland Flipped Classroom Study for Higher Education.  This study provides an “innovative professional development system” that enables faculty to create “personalized learning systems” and direct resources more “efficiently and effectively,” as in the Lake County Schools grant project.  This study will also help improve success rates and find greater cost efficiencies and scale the results on a national level, as in the Land-Grant Universities grant project.

Lake County Schools (Florida)
Date: September 2014
Purpose: to support organizations to develop innovative professional development systems to create personalized learning systems for teachers; experiment with innovative modes of delivery; and build the capacity at every level of the organization to design learning and direct resources efficiently and effectively.
Amount: $3,940,766
Term: 36
Topic: College-Ready
Regions Served: GLOBAL|NORTH AMERICA
Program: United States
Grantee Location: Tavares, Florida
Grantee Web site: http://lake.k12.fl.us/lakeschools

Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities
Date: January 2014
Purpose: to support a cohort of public urban research universities to develop new business models that can increase access, improve success rates and find greater cost efficiencies and then use national association networks to scale promising practices
Amount: $2,507,628
Term: 25
Topic: Postsecondary Success
Regions Served: GLOBAL|NORTH AMERICA
Program: United States
Grantee Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Grantee Web site: http://www.aplu.org

You can find more information about who received the largest Gates Foundation Educational Grants in 2014 here.