Improving Teaching, Sharing Knowledge

Camtree: the Cambridge Teacher Research Exchange

Camtree is a global platform for close-to-practice research in education. Its mission is to promote, support and publish research by educators, improve teaching, and lead to better outcomes for learners worldwide.

Camtree is the world’s first platform that helps teachers and educational leaders both to improve learning and share their knowledge. It is home to the Camtree Digital Library: an open-access, AI-enhanced digital library exclusively for teacher research.

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Camtree is here to create new educational possibilities

Camtree is a centre at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.  The Camtree team of experienced educators and researchers supports educators to research their practice and publish their findings. Camtree works in partnership with educational providers who share its values, and have a commitment to improving teaching and learning, and to sharing close-to-practice research.

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Camtree: for educators

Supporting educators to carry out and publish research

Camtree supports educators to plan, carry out and report on the close-to-practice research they carry out in their own settings.  We provide general guidance as well as specific advice on Research Lesson Study and how to promote and explore educational dialogue. Teachers' research reports are peer-reviewed before publication in the Camtree Digital Library - free of charge to individual educators.

Camtree: for education leaders

Inquiry-led leadership of educational improvement

School and system leaders can use our resources for professional development, curriculum development and inquiry-led improvement. We can provide professional development programmes and research training, and can host digital library collections.

Camtree: for educational providers

Supporting and sharing teachers' innovations and inquiries

Camtree works with universities, providers of teacher professional development, and system leaders to support programmes of educational inquiry, provide robust information infrastructures and enable teacher knowledge to be mobilised, synthesised and used in curriculum redesign and policy formation.  

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Camtree: for publishers of teacher research

Publishing teacher research to maximise reach and impact

Camtree offers custom hosting for new and existing collections of teacher research. We have worked with a range of partner organisations to design online collections, and to repurpose and reformat existing content to improve searchability, reach and impact - in line with 'open knowledge' principles, and using the latest AI technologies

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The Camtree Digital Library

At the heart of the Camtree platform is an AI-enabled, open-access digital library of  research by educators from around the world.  Based on the DSpace 7 platform, this is the first such library dedicated to the publication of teacher research.

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  • We offer a permanent home for your research in a digital library with worldwide reach and impact.
  • Peer review and formative feedback by experienced, Camtree-trained reviewers.
  • Publication under a Creative Commons CC-BY ‘attribution’ licence: authors retain copyright over their work.
  • No publication charges for individual authors.  It's free to publish in Camtree and free to access.
  • Cutting-edge AI-enhanced tools to help with reporting and abstracting.
  • Readership statistics and analytics for collections and items.
  • Permanent identifiers (Handles and DOIs) for content. 
  • Hosted collections for Camtree partners and organisational subscribers.
  • Tools to integrate library content into websites and social media, or into your own applications.