Classroom technology leader and global publisher join forces to deliver online education content
ATLANTA, Georgia --- June 25, 2007 --- SMART Technologies Inc. announces that it has reached an agreement in principle with respect to a North American alliance with Cambridge University Press, the world’s oldest publisher and a global player in the provision of online education content. SMART, a global education leader in classroom technology solutions, becomes the exclusive North American distributor of the Global Grid for Learning, a searchable, standards-correlated learning-resources repository. A subsidiary of Cambridge University Press, the Global Grid for Learning offers more than one million online learning resources for all subjects in a variety of formats, including images, video, audio, text documents and learning objects. SMART and Cambridge are working together to be the premier provider of digital content for educators across North America.
The Global Grid for Learning content is easy to use. It can be seamlessly integrated with the leading software platforms and a wide variety of hardware devices to provide a library of diverse and rich digital resources that teachers can use to enrich learning experiences for their students. Many of the world’s top content providers contribute to the digital library. They include the Bridgeman Art Library, Scran, The Learning Federation, Intel® Skoool™ and Cambridge University Press.
“Cambridge University Press is committed to advancing learning and knowledge,” says John Tuttle, Executive Director, Education. “By bringing together a range of high-profile content providers in the Global Grid for Learning, we are facilitating access to high-quality online content for teachers and learners worldwide. It’s clear to us that SMART shares this vision, and with hundreds of thousands of education customers, SMART is an ideal choice to deliver the premium content on the Global Grid for Learning to the North American market.”
“As interactive whiteboards become standard equipment in many 21st-century classrooms, educators are searching for high-quality content for this medium,” says Nancy Knowlton, SMART’s CEO. “This agreement with Cambridge University Press, an esteemed and historic company, brings together SMART’s award-winning technology with Global Grid for Learning’s extensive library of digital resources to make lesson creation easier and more effective for teachers.”
About Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press was founded by a royal charter granted to the University of Cambridge by King Henry VIII in 1534. It is the oldest printer and publisher in the world, having been operating continuously since 1584, and is one of the largest academic publishers globally. Its purpose is to further the University’s objective of advancing learning, knowledge and research. The Press currently publishes over 2,500 titles and 150 journals a year, which are sold to some 200 countries across the globe.
