Creative Commons is launching a new division to establish CC-licenses in education: ccLearn.

ccLearn 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.
* With legal barriers, we advocate for licensing of educational materials under interoperable terms, such as those provided by Creative Commons licenses, that allow unhampered modification, remixing, and redistribution. We also educate teachers, learners, and policy makers about copyright and fair-use issues pertaining to education.
* With technical barriers, we promote interoperability standards and tools to facilitate remixing and reuse.
* With social barriers, we encourage teachers and learners to re-use educational materials available on the Web, and to build on each other’s contributions.

After Science Commons, the Spin-off dealing with CC-Licences in Science and Open Access, this project brings the idea of free licences to a greater public beyond artists or musicians and gets new groups into the world of open learning. Still being in transition and starting off in September 2007, it seems to be worth keeping an eye on their work. They have already begun a few key projects like a Web-scale open education search in cooperation with google and the Hewlett Foundation. Check out their website for further ideas and information.