JEI

The Jordan Education Initiative (JEI) (www.jeLorg.jo) is internationally recognized as a successful example of powerful public-private partnership that can create lifelong learning opportunities. The JEI, which was launched in 2003 at the World Economic Forum meeting at the Dead Sea, is an ambitious e-Iearning project developed out of a partnership between the Kingdom and Cisco Systems that is poised to set an educational model in many other nations.The JEI is guided by Jordan's vision for the future of education, where the top and immediate priority is to build a knowledge-based economy that will enable citizens to become entrepreneurs and prepare them to win the competition in the local, regional and global labor markets by linking the education output to market demands. In sum, the Initiative seeks to create a model for effective Internet-enabled learning that can be replicated and implemented in other countries in the region-and eventually worldwide.