Coming Soon from Creative Commons, CC Learn

Imagine a global network of open and free educational content, customized for different states or countries, with experimentation across multiple sites and multiple platforms, so that someone else can find things to do with my content that I never thought of.  Imagine bringing into the open educational content community hundreds of thousands of teachers, students and volunteers.  That is exactly what Creative Commons' latest project, CC Learn, intends to do.

It will be devoted to open educational material and repositories from Kindergarten to lifelong learning.  Their goal is to break down barriers - whether legal, technical or cultural - between different collections of open educational content, by making the material more "interoperable," to speed up the virtuous cycle of use, experimentation and reuse, to spread the word about the value of open educational content, and to change the culture of repositories to one focused on "helping build a usable network of content worldwide" rather than "helping build the stuff on our site."

Creative Commons is also looking for an Executive Director with experience in education to run the new division.  Details are available on the CC website.