Research Projects
Cambridge University Press is the printing and publishing house of the University of Cambridge. It is an integral part of the University and has similar charitable objectives in advancing knowledge, education, learning and research. Global Grid for Learning is also committed to these objectives. We are interested in proposals that investigate:
- Discovery of digital content
- Education metadata
- Consumption and usage of digital content
- Discovery of digital content
- Evaluation of digital content
- Digital content licensing
- Digital content and software interoperability
- Digital content business models
Cambridge University Press is conducting research with a number of academic institutions and research consortia on areas related to Global Grid for Learning. These include:
The Nominet Trust is a charity created by Nominet in January 2008. It maintains the .uk register of domain names and is one of the world’s largest internet registries. They support distinctive and inventive internet-related projects that can make a difference to people, primarily in the areas of education, online safety and inclusion. Their aim is to help disadvantaged and vulnerable groups to use the internet – young people, the elderly, the disabled and sick, and people in deprived areas.
ASPECT is a new 30-month Best Practice Network supported by the European Commission’s eContentPlus Programme that involves 22 partners from 15 countries, including 9 Ministries of Education (MoE), four commercial content developers and leading technology providers, including Cambridge University Press. Currently Cambridge University Press is working with ASPECT and its partners to develop best practice approaches to implementing standards for both educational content discovery and use.
The 4C Initiative is a series of projects aimed at increasing digital content capacity for education on a global scale. By providing educators and learners with the skills to discover, use, create and share content with others in the learning community worldwide, it is their goal to:
- Encourage collaboration within the global education community
- Build digital content publishing capacity
- Advances use of technology and the opportunity of learning through technology
- Encourage the use of the Internet to discover and use learning resources for educational outcomes
The four main aims of the 4C Initiative are:
- Develop a digital content supply network for education
- Connect education to a billion digital resources in the next ten years
- Help educators and educational institutions worldwide to collaborate
- Build local digital content publishing capacity worldwide
