private limited industry publishing founded april 2007 headquarters london united kingdom area served united kingdom products website and dvd and cd rom owner espresso group ltd. discovery communications brand licensed from channel four television corporation website www.channel4learning.com channel 4 learning is a company based in london england which markets education resources games and activities to primary and secondary schools across the united kingdom . it is wholly owned by espresso group ltd. a private company whose businesses also include espresso education ltd. uk 1 and espresso education inc. us 2 channel 4 learning originally part of channel 4 was created to produce support materials that motivate and inspire learners aged 4 19 while empowering teachers to create engaging lessons . channel 4 learning resources include over 310 hours of programming dvds and interactive cd roms printed support publications free learning support websites primary resources cover early years key stage 1 and key stage 2 . subjects include art design & technology early years english geography history maths modern foreign languages pshe & citizenship re and science . secondary resources cover key stage 3 key stage 4 and gcses . subjects include applied gcses art design & technology english geography history maths modern foreign languages music pe pshe & citizenship re and science . some of channel 4 learning s popular award winning titles include the number crew life stuff living and growing all about us and extr modern foreign language series in english french german and spanish . in october 2007 channel 4 learning clipbank was launched an online service specifically for secondary schools in the uk providing thousands of video clips across 16 subject areas with tools to assist teachers and students in using the content . while most of the video was originally sourced from channel 4 television programmes it has since been supplemented with content from itn and bbc motion gallery . channel 4 learning also has an international division that license and distributes the rights to over 320 hours of educational programming commissioned by channel 4 into more than 40 countries worldwide . the content available to broadcasters publishers distributors agents and ministries of education is distributed worldwide across multiple platforms including broadcast video dvd cd rom online broadband and other digital platforms . history edit after the re structuring of channel 4 in 1993 itv s obligations to provide educational programming on channel 4 s airtime passed to channel 4 itself and the new service became channel 4 schools with the new corporation administering the service and commissioning its programmes some still from itv others from independent production . 3 4 in 2000 the service was renamed 4learning and in april 2007 the commercial arm and rights exploitation of its programmes and support materials was sold to espresso education and renamed channel 4 learning . information on the acquisition can be found on espresso s website 5 and in a guardian article . 6 channel 4 learning continues to market and sell video rich resources dvds cd roms sourced from channel 4 television programmes to schools across the united kingdom mainly through its catalogue and online shop . channel 4 learning is a part of espresso group . references edit espresso education . espresso education . espresso education inc . espresso education . schoolstv.com channel 4 schools 1993 1997 history . archived from the original on 2007 07 05 . retrieved 2008 02 16 . schoolstv.com history of itv schools on channel 4 . retrieved at the internet archive on 16 feb 2008 espresso to acquire channel 4 learning to become definitive place for video . espresso education . allen katie 2007 03 26 . channel 4 learning ready for a shot of espresso . london the guardian . external links edit channel 4 learning official website channel 4 learning international official website espresso education official website espresso elementary official website us retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title channel 4 learning & oldid 739285060 categories british companies established in 2007channel 4 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 20 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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