[Cc-uk] FW: CC Learn

R.Corrigan R.Corrigan at open.ac.uk
Mon Mar 19 12:08:35 EST 2007


I haven't seen this appear on the list yet and thought folks who weren't
yet aware of it might find it of interest.
Regards,
Ray
 
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: James Boyle [mailto:boyle at law.duke.edu] 
Sent: 17 March 2007 21:18
To: James Boyle
Subject: CC Learn


Dear Friends,
This looks impersonal and spammish, but it isn't.  I am writing to ask
for your help because you are interested in open content and open
licensing, and/or work on educational issues. 

I have two favours to ask.  Thanks to funding from the Hewlett and
Macarthur Foundations, Creative Commons is launching a new division
called CC Learn <http://creativecommons.org/about/opportunities#ccl> ,
which will be devoted to open educational material and repositories -
kindergarten through lifelong learning.  CC Learn's goal is to break
down the barriers - whether legal, technical or cultural - between
different collections of open educational content.  Our goal is to make
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."   Please help us spread the
news!  Second, we need an Executive Director with experience in
education to run the new division.  The person would be located in San
Francisco, working with the astounding CC staff. Details are here.
<http://creativecommons.org/about/opportunities#ccl>
http://creativecommons.org/about/opportunities#ccl  Please pass this
information along to the networks you are a part of and encourage
qualified people to apply.  Save the world and advance learning through
open content, in San Francisco, while surrounded by extremely cool
people.. What more could one want?  
 
This is a really exciting initiative.  Imagine a global network of open
and free educational content, with curricula customized to 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.  Imagine pursuing ease of discovery and use of
educational material with the same ingenuity and dedication that we
invest in making e-commerce systems work well or in allowing teenagers
to flirt with each other on social networking sites..  Many of the
pieces are in place, and there are great people working on the issue
already,  but there is a lot to do.  Please help us by passing this
along.  (And if you can help fund it or donate
<http://creativecommons.org/support/donate> to support it, so much the
better!)  
 
Thanks so much, 
warm regards, 
Jamie 
 
 
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