Education Grid provides a disciplined way to use open and subscribed education e-content, books and other references in pedagogically focused technology enhanced learning and teaching (TELT) activities as they are suited in the different modules in any course. It is a suite of systems and processes backed and serviced by Education Grid Portal (and such similar portals as others may come up with) that ensures the colleges and the universities or affiliating universities effectively benefit from open e-content of increasing volume becoming available over the Internet. Examples of such content include that could be used in any Education Grid facilitated course include those from NPTEL, MIT Open Courseware, open content from diverse universities and research organizations, open web-resources like computational portals, iLabs, industry specific content for linking to specific learning modules, etc. It may also be used to benefit from the contents of Wikiversity, Wikipedia, Curriki.org, SOS Maths and many such special sites.

Education Grid project proposes to address the problem of providing quality education in the colleges and universities using TELT by involving the teachers themselves as much as possible. It will establish a network of Education Servers across colleges linked to a few Resource Centres [EGRC] and a central Education Grid Operations Centre [EGOC]. The teachers and the colleges will be supported by the Education Grid project to develop quality content through its services and invoke such educational processes that effectively apply TELT methods. In this endeavour, the project will draw from the large volumes of content available or getting generated over the Internet or by the national level projects such as the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning [NPTEL].

There is a wide variety of issues to be addressed and several innovations to be made in the Higher Education system to benefit from the potential offered by the Education Grid. The vision of Education Grid is to provide quality education to all students independent of geography. The target group is the set of colleges, institutions and universities that constitute the higher education system. This is proposed to be achieved through modernising and equipping the colleges to make TELT methods a way of life in the colleges. The core issue of Education Grid is quality education. Here we state the two major issues addressed by the Education Grid to achieve its objectives. The first is to review the parameters that address quality in Education. The second concerns with the infrastructure, programmes and processes to be supported by the Education Grid project. In a fundamental way, the Education Grid project is different from merely deploying Internet, Education Servers and access to the same. The project has several major areas of operations, each run by its own task forces. All these task forces operate under the supervision of the Apex Project Coordination Unit and supported by either the Education Grid Operations Centre at IIITM-K, or, the Resource Centres proposed to be established in leading institutions.