About this archive, and the history of this domain
ITL Research is an independent project. It is not affiliated with Microsoft, SRI International, UNESCO, or the former Innovative Teaching and Learning Research programme.
What ITL Research is
ITL Research is an independent research and data platform. It collects, structures and documents data from public and authorised sources, and publishes industry-specific datasets, market and industry research, data dictionaries and methodology notes, historical and comparative analysis, research reports, and custom datasets built for specific research needs. Every dataset is released with its methodology, source information, coverage details and guidance for use.
The project is independent: no institutional sponsor, no funding from the organisations named in the disclosure above, and no affiliation with them. It also hosts the documented archive of the historical education research programme that previously used the name ITL Research and this domain — see the history below.
Historical materials referenced on this website are provided for research and bibliographic purposes, with attribution to their respective authors and rights holders.
How documents are verified
For each document, the archive records the archived snapshot it came from, checks that a downloaded file is genuinely the archived payload by comparing its content digest against the digest recorded by the archive, and checks that the file parses as the format it claims to be. A capture that returns a web page, a parking page or a challenge is not a recovered document and is not treated as one. Each file's own licence text is then read, and the basis on which it may be published is decided before it is served; served files carry that basis on the report index and on their own page.
History of this domain
Public archives document an unusually complete sequence of changes of ownership. The record below is drawn from those captures.
- 2004–2009 — an unidentified predecessor
- Only a Joomla-style robots.txt was archived, in 2004 and 2005. No content capture exists, so nothing can be said about the site's subject.
- January 2010 – July 2016 — the ITL Research programme
- The domain hosted the programme's Joomla site: home, partners, advisors, 21st Century Learning Design, logic model, research and reports, and ITL LEAP21 sections, with the report PDFs under /images/stories/reports/. Captures from this period contain no spam content.
- October 2016 – 2021 — offline
- The site returned HTTP 403 in October 2016 and was not archived again for the rest of the period.
- 2022–2023 — another owner: 404s and parking
- Old report paths returned 404, one page redirected to a domain-parking service, and in December 2023 the root served a registrar “website coming soon” placeholder.
- 2024 — an online casino site on the domain
- A WordPress installation published Indonesian-language gambling pages under slugs such as /w88-slot-... and /cara-deposit-w88-..., with category and author archives. Later captures show an anti-bot challenge, a hosting suspension page, an empty directory listing, and then a parking script. None of this content belonged to the programme, and none of it is reproduced or restored here.
- 2025 — a gambling doorway
- A static sitemap advertised 45 URLs made of casino brand names as bare paths, with no working site behind them, alongside a non-executing PHP installation and further parking interstitials. Those paths are retired with an HTTP 410 response and are excluded from search engines.
- Late 2025 – 2026 — expiry and acquisition
- The domain expired, was offered at auction by its registrar, and was acquired. This archive was built on the acquired domain. It exists partly because hundreds of live pages — news coverage, university pages, development-sector writing and academic references — still link to the programme's old addresses.
Corrections, licensing and takedowns
If you are the author or rights holder of a document described here and want the description changed or the file removed, contact the publisher through the domain's registration contact details and it will be actioned. If you can supply a lawful copy of a document this archive only describes, or a licence that permits redistribution, that is welcome too. Corrections are recorded in the page itself rather than silently applied.
What this site does not do
- It does not use third-party logos, brand marks, or partner claims anywhere, including in structured data and social previews.
- It does not accept uploaded copies of third-party material, and it does not publish a file without either that file's own licence or an explicit statement, on the page, of the basis on which it is made available and how to request its removal.
- It does not claim that the programme continues, or that this site is its successor.
- It does not reuse the gambling content, brand slugs, or injected pages from the domain's later ownership periods.