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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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 


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What people are saying about the GLRC

“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.


“The Gateway will provide an excellent framework for assessing the value of the GLRC effort through its automated means of data collection and teacher access.”

- John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)


In support of the Global Learning Resource Connection: “The K-12 education community is continuing to grow their use of digital resources. However, ensuring that our selected, quality materials are searchable and relevant is of critical importance. High quality metadata ensures that our education community is linked to great content and that content is aligned to ever evolving standards.”

- Lee Sartain, Education Policy Specialist, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University


“NCVPS has served over 65,000 student enrollments over its brief history, and has over 400 teachers working with those students. The partnership with the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) will allow these teachers and students access to an increased expanse of relevant educational content in an efficient and seamless manner.”

– Chanin Rivenbark, Chief Technology Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School


“The Achievement Standards Network (ASN) provides a model for profiling curriculum statements and linking those statements to education resources using various RDF vocabularies. By profiling curriculum statements to learning resources, more precise matching is achieved”.

– Les Kneebone – Project Manager, Education Services Australia Ltd.



Premier GLRC Sponsors / Partners

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association of School Librarians

Cengage/Gale

Center for Natural language Processing

Cisco

Education Services Australia

IMS Global Learning Consortium

Library of Congress

Michigan eLibrary

Microsoft

National Education Association (NEA)

National Science Foundation

TeachEngineering

Teachers Domain

U.S. Department of Education

WGBH (PBS-Boston)

Twitter

JESandCo: JES & Co. parthers with EdGate to provide correlation services to ASN users. See the press release here:http://t.co/C2P6FmWY


JESandCo: Look at the resources on Monuments: National Symbols of Power, Glory, and Remembrance this week on the Gateway at http://t.co/4hOe8psy



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