Creative Commons and Open Educational Resources - CC Wiki - 1 views
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Creative Commons provides the legal and technical infrastructure essential to the long-term success of OER, making it possible for educational resources to be widely accessible, adaptable, interoperable, and discoverable.
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embedding each of its licenses with software code that makes the license terms machine-readable—that is—discoverable by a search engine.
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CC is also exploring ways to provide scalable search and discovery for educational resources on the web via its search prototype, DiscoverEd.
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CC’s legal and technical tools have enabled–not to mention opening up opportunities for new business models in educational publishing (e.g., CK-12 Foundation, Flat World Knowledge, and Bloomsbury Academic, which publish textbooks and scholarly journals under CC licenses),