Welcome to GELC, a gathering place for researchers and educators: teachers, academics, researchers, programmers, authors, corporate trainers, administrators, public officials, students and others. In this community you can find, develop and share open source educational tools, research, open learning standards implementations and open course learning materials.
The Learning Federation, a non-profit governmental initiative of Australia and New Zealand, has created remarkable Web-based materials for grades P-10. About 120 learning objects cover math, science, basic literacy and creativity, and are mostly in the form of Flash games.
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GELC and the new project: study groups
In GELC we have a new initiative to encourage the study of Java technology in universities. Here is a brief submitted model, which succeeded three years ago in Brazil: the study groups. —
Elias Nogueira (Oct 21, 2007)
GELC => Curriki
The GELC Advisory Board has officially announced the name for GELC's new student- and teacher-focused Website: curriki.org. The Curriki site will support "open source curricula" for K-12 in science, math, technology and languages. The new name ... —
Robert Stephenson (Oct 18, 2006)
GELC - Are we ready for the buzz?
GELC has been getting a significant share of attention. It is really exciting to hear the conversations around the mission and vision for GELC. Check out the following events where GELC was discussed. Scott McNealy's appearance on PBS’ “Tavis Smileyâ€�... —
Barbara Kurshan (Sep 30, 2006)
Scott McNealy interview on the GELC
In an August 2006 article, Forbes.Com interviews Sun Microsystem's Chairman Scott McNealy about his plans for the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC).
Partners
What other websites would be good models for GELC or would make good partners.
Who is a good partner for GELC?
GELC Renaming Contest
The Global Education and Learning Community (GELC) is looking for a new name, and we want your help. We're running a contest to see who can come up with the best name. Read on for more details...
Graduation Day, part II
Four more projects have graduated form the GELC's incubator. They include an electronic lab notebook, tools for steganography (i.e hiding information in plain sight) and detecting changes to the file system, and a demonstration project translating relational algebra queries into SQL database queries.
Open Source Curriculum for Africa
I have just returned from two weeks in Africa. Wiring Rwanda so that all schools and all health clinics would have connectivity, supplying courses to 13 new universities in Ethiopia, creating open source textbooks for the developing world -- how can GELC help do this?
Graduation Day, part I
Four projects graduated from the GELC Community incubator. They include DONE (an Eclipse plug-in), belletmen (a dictionary prompter), easyframe (a simple Swing user interface) and fuja (a Java study group).
CAN GELC BE UNIQUE?
Open source textbooks; a place for assessing the progress of a learner; a virtual design center for creating a curriculum from open education resources; a repository of courses; a community for discussion about open source curriculum: which one will make GELC unique in the open source curriculum arena?
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Barbara Kurshan (May 09, 2006)
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