The Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) is an international collaboration of world class companies, organizations, education agencies, and nations. The GLRC is making resources correlated to learning objectives available for use in the classroom with the help from many of our Premier Sponsors and Partners including The American Association for the Advancement of Science, The 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, Teach Engineering, Teachers Domain, and WGBH (PBS- Boston).
“I am very excited that important companies, organizations, education agencies, and nations are playing key leadership roles in the development and advancement of the GLRC,” explained Diny Golder, Executive Director of JES & Co. “The result of the GLRC collaboration will be that education resources can be correlated to any set of learning objectives including specific state standards, the Common Core State Standards, any country’s national curriculum, or any set of learning objectives desired. The really exciting outcome is that education resources can be discovered and accessed from any state or from any country in the world using localized learning objectives. We call this connecting the dots between educational systems, or the Global Learning Resource Connection,” said Golder.
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About the GLRC
The Global Learning Resource Connection (GLRC) is a public-private collaboration which brings to fruition ongoing work between JES & Co., a U.S. 501(c)(3) education research organization, corporate sponsors and education agencies worldwide. Leading the initial corporate involvement are founding worldwide partners Microsoft, Cisco, Cengage/Gale, the National Education Association (NEA), and other leading corporations in process. The GLRC ties together several significant semantic web technologies developed through funding from the National Science Foundation and is designed to support cyber learning. The GLRC supports the implementation of the mapping of major collections of learning resources in systems around the world to the machine-readable expressions of the learning outcomes based on the Achievement Standards Network (ASN) modeling and technical framework. The work will implement the international linking of those resources through trans-jurisdictional mapping of learning outcomes by means of Semantic Web/Linked Data principles for teacher/learner access and use. For more information about the GLRC, contact Terry Smithson at
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About JES & Co.
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 20 years of experience in interoperability and portability of educational resources, organizations around the world come to JES & Co. for leadership and guidance on education programs and initiatives. 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. For more information about JES & Co. or the Global Learning Resource Connection, visit www.JESandCo.org.