Nortel LearniT and Curriki Form Alliance to Bring One of the World's Largest, Free Online Resources to Educators

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Mar 19 (MARKET WIRE) --
Working to ensure today's students are prepared to compete globally in
the 21st century, Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(NYSE: NT) LearniT and Curriki have
formed an alliance to co-ordinate their websites into one of the world's
largest, free online sources of educational materials.

Nortel LearniT is the key philanthropic initiative of Nortel, designed to
introduce teachers and students to the positive impacts digital
technologies can have on learning. Curriki, originally founded by Sun
Microsystems(2), is an independent non-profit organization whose global
mission is to make curricula and learning resources available to everyone
online at no cost.

The Nortel LearniT-Curriki alliance provides a free forum for creating
and sharing online instructional materials that integrate the latest
digital technologies such as imaging and video into all subjects ranging
from math to social studies to languages. For example, a teacher can
bring to life a traditional lesson plan on the science of weather through
digital satellite imaging, showing students how systems interact
globally. The teacher can then upload it to the Nortel LearniT and
Curriki(2) websites, making it available to any teacher anywhere.

"While students are often very tech-savvy, many teachers want to better
leverage these new tools to enhance and energize traditional approaches
to learning," said Mike Zafirovski, Nortel president and CEO. "Nortel
LearniT's alliance with Curriki provides a free global online forum to
help educators teach essential skills that students will need when
entering the workforce in an increasing technology-based Hyperconnected
world. It also shares educational resources that integrate these digital
technologies into powerful multimedia learning experiences."

Curriki founder and board member Scott McNealy said: "This alliance with
Nortel is critical to helping Curriki meet its mission of providing
students, teachers and parents with free and open source content and
curriculum for K-12 education. Curriki provides the curriculum, and
Nortel's LearniT program will ensure teachers are connected to those
resources to improve education and opportunity for kids worldwide."

According to Curriki executive director Dr. Bobbi Kurshan, the lack of
qualified instructors and sufficient instructional materials has a
profound negative impact on a community's graduation rates, health and
crime. One educational non-profit group, The Partnership for 21st Century
Skills, notes that a widening gap has formed between the knowledge and
skills students are acquiring in schools and those needed to succeed in
the increasingly global, technology-infused workplace.

As part of the alliance, Nortel LearniT will gain access to Curriki's
award-winning curriculum publishing platform, hosting and marketing
services. Nortel LearniT will provide Curriki with its comprehensive
science, technology, engineering and mathematics teacher training program
as well as tools to train new and current users on the integrated use of
technology in the classroom.

Nortel LearniT partners include The National Institute for Aerospace, One
Laptop Per Child(2) and numerous regional school boards. More than
3-million unique visitors click through its website,
www.nortellearnit.org, each year from 40 different countries. Curriki's
partners include Learnthings Africa, National Repository of Online
Courses and Merit Software. Nearly 35,000 members contribute and use
Curriki's 10,000 free learning resources, including everything from
lesson plans to complete textbooks.

About Nortel

Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities
that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our
customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider
and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical
applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate
today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying
networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they
need it. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries around the
world. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com.
For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news.

About Curriki

Curriki: The Global Education & Learning Community is a nonprofit social
entrepreneurship organization dedicated to improving education by
empowering teachers, students and parents with universal access to free
and open-source curricula. Curriki is building the first and only
Internet site that offers a complete course of open-source instruction
and assessment for K--12. The organization is creating a world-class
educational environment that is community developed and supported.
Founded by Sun Microsystems in 2004, Curriki now operates as an
independent nonprofit organization. Visit us at www.curriki.org.

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(905) 863-7156
Email: Richard.Bloom@nortel.com
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