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JES & Co. Announces Microsoft as a Premier Sponsor of the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC)

JES & Co. a world leader in research, development, and deployment of education programs based on open standards, announced today that Microsoft has become a Premier Sponsor and founding worldwide partner of the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC). The GLRC will result in teachers and learners being able to seamlessly navigate related learning resources across national boundaries thus enriching the curricula in each nation while simultaneously providing the means for relating learning outcomes to educational resources such as student ePortfolios, professional development resources, and individual student learning plans.

Terry Smithson Appointed Director of Marketing of JES & Co.’s Global Learning Resource Connection

The GLRC will result in teachers and learners being able to seamlessly navigate related learning resources across national boundaries.

JES & Co. appoints Terry Smithson as Director of Marketing to bring the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) solutions to educators worldwide. JES & Co., a world leader in research, development, and deployment of education programs based on open standards, announced today that Terry Smithson has been appointed director of marketing.

The Global Learning Resource Connection and the IMS Global Learning Consortium Announce Partnership

Partnership will leverage web technology to enable open electronic publishing and searching of educational resources supporting countries and states around the world establishing core educational standards.

JES & Co. Announces the inclusion of the Common Core State Standards in the Achievement Standards Network (ASN)

JES & Co. announced today the inclusion of the Common Core State Standards in the Achievement Standards Network (ASN). The Common Core State Standards Initiative was led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) representing 48 states, 2 territories, and the District of Columbia.

JES & Co. at ALA Annual 2010

Jon Phipps, JES & Co.'s Lead Scientist for Internet Strategies presented a technical overview of the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) RDF vocabulary at the Linked Data Pre-conference at the American Library Association's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Jon was an Invited Expert on the Semantic Web Deployment Working Group that developed SKOS. JES & Co.'s Open Metadata Registry also describes registered value vocabularies using SKOS. The special Linked Data Pre-Conference day was a complete sellout and generated quite a bit of excitement among the attendees. Jon also participated, with Ed Summers of the Library of Congress, in a 45-minute question and answer session that was followed immediately by a panel discussion moderated by Corey Harper of NYU. A copy of Jon's presentation can be found here.

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