CC Learn: Promoting Interoperability Among Open Educational Resources Repositories

by Jorge Goncalves on April 16, 2007

in Ideas, News and Articles, Open, Resources

Wanted: Single standard for open-content licenses. ‘New effort aims to unite open educational resources (OERs) under a common framework for permissions. The movement toward open course materials for education has created something of a problem: Although a number of repositories have been set up to allow users to download sharable online content, many of these sites contain materials that use different licensing agreements. Now, a new initiative from the nonprofit Creative Commons aims to solve this problem. Called CC Learn, the project seeks to create a single, standard licensing framework that can encompass all open educational resources.’

Creative Commons Opportunities: CC Learn Executive Director. ‘CC Learn is looking for an Executive Director.


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