Global Grid for Learning

Government agencies and projects

Key features and benefits

High quality – Professionally developed digital resources from trusted content providers. Copyright-cleared images, video clips, audio files, text documents and learning objects ready for you to incorporate into your curriculum.
Breadth of content – Global Grid for Learning provides your clients with one of the largest and best-quality digital education content repositories.
Easy to use – Global Grid for Learning can be integrated into your existing software and systems to make it seamless for your teachers and students helps you find what they need instantly.
Best value – allows you to buy as much or as little as you need from a variety of publishers. You can pay only for what is used.
Fully managed solution – Global Grid for Learning allows you to focus on core objectives while Cambridge University Press’s publishing and technology experts manage and support your content mix.
Cost and Time Savings – reduce your costs relating to content procurement, software integration and delivery by using one open multi-publisher platform.

Teachers, schools, and school districts want high quality, educationally validated, copyright cleared digital content. This content is increasingly varied and granular; teachers use learning objects, image, video, and audio files as well as variety of textual material. Global Grid for Learning allows teachers to search and retrieve disaggregated content from multiple publishers from one single integrated platform.

Global Grid for Learning brings government agencies and portals instant-on capabilities that can fully integrate into existing back-office systems or operate on a stand-alone basis – backed by the technical and operational expertise of one of the world’s most trusted publishers, Cambridge University Press.

With Global Grid for Learning, your teachers and students get immediate access to millions of top-quality education resources from thousands of sources ready to download or play. New content and content options are added monthly; you may request that Global Grid for Learning establish new partnerships too.

Available anytime anywhere online

Global Grid for Learning is available anytime anywhere through the world wide web. You can still enjoy the convenience of having such a vast collection of resources at your fingertips by accessing an online website. The content can be used on any web enabled device to create lessons that keep students engaged and focused on learning.

Flexible licensing models

With Global Grid for Learning, you can license content with maximum flexibility including:

Pay per use
Unlimited search with download restrictions
Unlimited download per collection type (subject, media type or content provider)

Significant volume discounts and multi-year discounts apply.

Integrates with Interactive Whiteboard Software

As part of a strategic alliance with SMART Technologies Inc., Global Grid for Learning is available as SMART Learning Marketplace and works seamlessly with Notebook collaborative learning software. Your teachers and students can quickly search for content through a direct link in the software’s Gallery. Then click and drag resources onto a Notebook page or lesson activity and present the material to your students on a SMART Board interactive whiteboard. Further information can be found at http://www.smarttech.com.

Integrates with Virtual Learning Environment Software

Cambridge University Press has worked with Microsoft to create a standard web part for Global Grid for Learning. This makes it simple and straightforward to integrate Global Grid for Learning into any virtual learning environment based on Microsoft SharePoint.

In addition, we have developed a standard web service specification for other VLE and software providers to integrate Global Grid for Learning into their software applications.