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. Mr. Smithson is well known to the education community through his eight years of leading Intel’s education initiatives and the national Hurricane Education Leadership Program (HELP). Mr. Smithson will focus on the Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) growth worldwide with dedicated attention to the providers of the next generation of education systems. The GLRC will result in teachers and learners being able to seamlessly navigate related learning resources across state and national boundaries thus enriching curricula while simultaneously providing the means of relating learning outcomes to educational activities such as student ePortfolios, professional development, and assessments.

"I am proud to announce Terry’s appointment as Director of Marketing. The magnitude of the GLRC‘s reach demands someone with extensive education experience and the ability to get GLRC sponsors’ messages out to the mass of educators worldwide. No one could do this better than Terry,” explains Diny Golder, the Executive Director of JES & Co. "I am excited about joining the JES & Co. team and the focus on the Global Learning Resource Connection,” said Smithson. “The GLRC is the first global education initiative using the Semantic Web and will play a key role in the advancement of education worldwide through technology. It is an honor to be a part of a team that is both visionary and is recognized as a world leader in the research and development of programs that have such a profound impact on education around the world."