Sun Announces Global Education and Learning Community

In a keynote speech on Wednesday at the Educause annual meeting in Orlando, Mr. McNealy announced the creation of a nonprofit organization called the Global Education and Learning Community, which will provide a framework for educators to work together to develop and distribute educational resources online.

The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog: Sharing Teaching Tools Online

Sounds cool, kind of like CALI’s CODEC intiative, or for that matter just about anything CALI does.  Here’s GLEC’s mission: “The community’s mission is to improve global education by empowering
teachers, students and parents with self-paced, web based, free and
open content (curriculum resources, assessment) combined with best
practices for advancing student achievement world wide