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The Partnership in Global Learning (PGL) is an international collaboration among K-12 schools, universities, and corporations to conduct e-learning research and training. PGL is creating e-learning communities to share expertise and resources. For an overview of PGL

PGL programs and activities include:

  • K-12 teacher training and online content development
  • International e-learning community development
  • Research on online systems to support e-learning
  • Cross-cultural research on language translation

The PGL lead institution is the University of Florida.

Founding members of PGL include:
            University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida USA
            Fundação Getúlio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil
            Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
            Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
            Technologico de Monterrey, Virtual University, Monterrey, México

Founding corporate sponsors include:

            IBM
            Lucent Technologies
            Avaya Communications

PGL universities are working with teachers in middle and high schools in the United States, Brazil and Mexico to develop online materials. The PGL approach to training involves local universities and clusters of K-12 schools that work together to design, develop, and implement online learning. Content is reusable, adaptable, and shared among the partner schools. A multimedia object oriented database is being developed to store and retrieve the content in the form of learning objects. Currently, PGL participants include:

  • 200 Teachers in 4 countries
  • 6 Universities
  • 40 K-12 schools:
  • 14 Cities