Announcing ccLearn - the education division of Creative Commons
Creative Commons is entertained to foretell the start of a newborn sectionalization convergent on education: ccLearn.
ccLearn is sacred to realizing the flooded possibleness of the cyberspace to hold unstoppered acquisition and unstoppered educational resources (OER). Our assignment is to derogate barriers to distribution and reuse of educational materials — jural barriers, theoretical barriers, and ethnic barriers.
- With legal barriers, we exponent for licensing of educational materials low interoperable terms, much as those provided by Creative Commons licenses, that earmark free modification, remixing, and redistribution. We also civilize teachers, learners, and contract makers most papers and fair-use issues pertaining to education.
- With technical barriers, we encourage interoperability standards and tools to assist remixing and reuse.
- With social barriers, we encourage teachers and learners to re-use educational materials acquirable on the Web, and to physique on apiece other’s contributions.
ccLearn module be in transformation over the residual of the summer, 2007, achievement flooded activeness this Fall. ccLearn is generously based by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and is employed intimately with members of the Foundation’s Open Educational Resources Program. This is an planetary project, and we module be employed with unstoppered educational sites and resources from around the world.