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Creative Commons announces ccLearn
Creative Commons announced ccLearn on the Creative Commons blog the other day. Here’s the mission as articulated in the announcement:
Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.
- With legal barriers, we advocate for licensing of educational materials under interoperable terms, such as those provided by Creative Commons licenses, that allow unhampered modification, remixing, and redistribution. We also educate teachers, learners, and policy makers about copyright and fair-use issues pertaining to education.
- With technical barriers, we promote interoperability standards and tools to facilitate remixing and reuse.
- With social barriers, we encourage teachers and learners to re-use educational materials available on the Web, and to build on each other’s contributions.
The language of “advocate”, “promote” and “encourage” is a little less concrete than the missions of some of CC other undertakings, so I’m interested in seeing how the project develops. One concrete element of the project that will be a great contribution to the OER world is the Open Education Search.
