In this podcast, Tony Lowe talks with Talis about his recent award from the Talis Incubator fund for Open Education. Tony is a UK-based learning technologist with a wealth of experience in higher education who 5 years ago set up his own company, Webducate, in order to provide freelance e-learning development and consultancy services. The Incubator award will give him the opportunity to explore the possibilities of his Drawtivity project. Tony describes his aspiration with this project  to create an authoring system that will enable educators to create reusable resources upon which learners will be able to draw lines and receive feedback in order to meet educational goals. By way of example, a student could draw the location of the root of a nerve on an image of a human body, and then receive marks for accuracy and other feedback. The current generation of rapid e-learning tools make it difficult if not impossible for educators to pick up each others’ resources and adapt them for reuse in differing contexts.  Drawtivity is envisaged as a web-based authoring system, with which users will search for suitable resources, which once found, can be easily previewed, downloaded and copied into the user’s own area to be repurposed. Tony can readily see its applicability in the early years of higher education, especially for teaching anatomy to Medicine students, but believes it offers a whole range of learning scenarios and will also be highly suitable for schoolchildren. The judges on the Talis Incubator Proposal Review Board were particularly impressed by the tool’s potential in the area of e-assessment. Tony is currently developing the flash movie that will deliver the activities; a number of example activities should be available by early June. Tony then plans to elicit feedback from experienced educators. In the longer term, Tony is interested in broadening out the scope of the tool into a more general web-based authoring system, thus furthering the aims of the Open Education movement. You can follow the progress of the Drawtivity project at the Drawtivity blog.