The Spoken Word Project
The Spoken Word Project was an educational research project based in the Britain in the United States which ran from 2003−2008.
The multi-million dollar project is part of the JISC/NSF funded Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme[1] and aimed to provide tools appropriate for the digital classroom by exploiting the educational potential of the interests and activities of the social networking generation.
Partners
The project is a partnership between Glasgow Caledonian University, Northwestern University, Michigan State University and BBC Information and Archives. [2]
The lead British institution was the Glasgow Caledonian University, with the team based at the Saltire Centre.[3]
The project has a unique ‘legal deposit’ agreement[4] with the BBC that allows access to the BBC archives "for educational uses only". Television and radio programmes from the BBC archives and other sources are then made available in a digital form through the website to educational users across the UK, the EU, the USA and beyond. These digitised materials can be put to varying educational uses.
Inception
The foundations for the project were first laid down in the early 1990s when the eventual Principal Investigator of the project, David Donald, met Professor Jerry Goldman of Northwestern University through what was eventually incarnated as the Internet in the form that we are presently familiar with.
References
- ↑ "Digital libraries in the classroom programme : JISC". Jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
- ↑ Longmuir, Anne (March 2004). "The Spoken Word: New Resources to Transform Teaching and Learning". D-Lib Magazine.
- ↑ "The University: University Facilities: The Saltire Centre". Glasgow Caledonian University. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
- ↑ Archived May 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.