Jordan Education Initiative
Delivering Innovative English-Language Training
Pearson is proud to partner with the United States State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative in an effort to supply state-of-the-art English-as-a-Second-Language curriculum and training to teachers and students served by the Jordan Education Initiative. This ambitious initiative brings leaders from the IT, telecom, and education industries together with Jordanian authorities and the World Economic Forum to deliver effective e-learning to Jordanian citizens.
Pearson has teamed with the Cisco Learning Institute, Teachscape, and the Middle East Partnership Initiative to supply a comprehensive digital high-school curriculum for ESL training. The program will first be available in 2005, distributed using the Cisco Learning Institute’s “Virtuoso Learning System.” In addition to supplying curriculum, Pearson has participated from the start in the design, implementation, and support for this new product based on Pearson Education’s best-selling “Longman English Interactive.”
ESL training is one of four key discipline focal points for the Jordan Education Initiative, which supports the Jordanian government's vision of building a knowledge economy by providing lifelong learning opportunities for all Jordanian citizens. This unique private-public partnership represents an opportunity not only to improve the lives of Jordanians, but also to serve as a model for educational reform around the world.
