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ccLearn

There’s an interesting new project from the fabulous Creative Commons folk.

ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.

Although a US-based project, they do say: This is an international project, and we will be working with open educational sites and resources from around the world. They are part of the wider Open Educational resources Initiative, which also seems to include the Open University’s OpenLearn initiative.

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