Global Education And Learning Community Grows To 1330 Members

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (sun.com) today announced that the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC) is thriving, growing to more than 1330 members with over 177 projects in less than eight months.

Sun convened the first advisory board meeting in September 2004 to gather the key influencers in technology and education to focus on developing the technology community's collaborative open standards-based projects and tools for teaching and learning.

The purpose of the community is to help people find, develop and share open source educational tools, open learning standards implementations and open course learning materials.

"We've seen a tremendous amount of interest in the GELC since we convened the first advisory board meeting in September, and we expect the number of community members and education and learning projects to continue to grow at a rapid rate," said Kim Jones, vice president, Global Education and Research for Sun Microsystems.

An online community established to encourage high school female students to study Java programming and Computer Science (CS), and to increase the number of girls who take Advanced Placement (AP) exams in CS.

The Cafe hosts a verified network of high school CS teachers who moderate and lead the community. Female students can also interact with AP CS alumnae to understand their experience with class.

The Cafe https://girlsjavacafe.dev.java.net/gjcregister.html is open to students who are invited to participate by their teacher.

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The Global Education and Learning Community provides researchers, teachers, programmers, authors, corporate trainers, administrators, public officials, students and others a place to find, develop and share technology-related open source educational tools, open learning standards implementations and open course learning materials.