The National Education Association is the proud sponsor of the Gateway to 21^st Century Skills (part of the Global Learning Resource Connection), the first U.S. digital library for teachers and learners that is Semantic Web enabled and positioned to drive the development of the next generation of education tools. The Gateway serves NEA's 3.2 million members who make over 4.5 million requests to the Gateway each month. Over 700 institutions of higher education link directly into the Gateway to support teacher education and the next generation of educational leaders." - John Wilson, Executive Director, National Education Association (NEA)

"Governments around the world are looking for ways to provide access to digital learning resources and IMS is eager to help make this happen through cooperation with GLRC and the IMS Learning Object Discovery and Exchange (LODE) project."- Dr. Rob Abel, Chief Executive Officer of IMS Global Learning Consortium

"We believe our work with the Global Learning Resource Connection will provide global access to materials that will enrich the learning experience."- John Behrens, Director of Cisco Networking Academy

"Currently, ESA is partnering with JES & Co. to link Australian digital content repositories to the emerging Australian National Curriculum. The Global Learning Resource Connection Project is both a logical and a breakthrough development in which Education Services Australia wishes to fully participate. We believe we have much to contribute and much to gain by the partnership". - Susan Mann, Chief Executive Officer, Education Services Australia (ESA)

"Gale is pleased to work with JES & Co. and the GLRC to support the linking and discoverability of our resources in a way that will benefit learning institutions both in the U.S. and internationally. This is an important extension of current efforts to align Gale content to achievement standards in the ASN, which will enable educators to find multimedia, news, statistics, reference, and many other resources to meet their instructional needs, all within the context of Gale's dynamic classroom-focused products."- Frank Menchaca, Executive Vice President, Gale

In the U.S., states and publishers are hurrying to make sure their resources are correlated to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in addition to the already mandated state standards. JES & Co. has developed processes that make the job simpler and less expensive. The GLRC team is putting to use linked-data, making relationships between learning objectives and resources both dynamic and flexible. What is getting the state and district superintendents so excited? GLRC tools and services are enabling teachers to teach to the CCSS and still report and assess using the state standards. And publishers are finding that their products and services are not only meeting today's multi-standards requirements but are making individualized learning plans and cross grade/subject options a reality. Don't get left behind.

GLRC partners around the world are making rich relationships between resources and learning goals; even between resources and complex learning trajectories. Learning goals can be mixed and mashed without leaving the associated resources behind. The GLRC partnership is growing rapidly in all segments of education - commercial and open source education resources, teacher preparation, college entry readiness, and the most popular topic: individualized life-long learning.

Get involved.

Correlate your resources to curriculum standards.

Publicly register your vocabularies and ontologies for interoperability.

Invest in future GLRC development.

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