JES & Co., a publicly funded 501(c)(3) education research organization, is a leader in research and deployment of education programs based on open standards. With over 15 years of experience in interoperability and portability of educational resources, organizations around the world come to JES & Co. to make things happen. Since its establishment in the early 1990s, JES & Co. has led and managed The Achievement Standards Network (ASN), The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, The Gateway to 21st Century Skills (formerly known as GEM), the Dell Academy, the Intel Student Certification Program, and Microsoft’s Partners in Learning.
JES & Co. is connecting the dots between learning systems in the United States and internationally using semantic web technologies. With the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC), educational resources will be shared by teachers, parents, students and the general public and discovered across oceans and continents using a simple non-proprietary format called the Resource Description Framework, the linked data structure of the upcoming Semantic Web.
