Creative Commons in Education

One of the avenues that Creative Commons uses with its licenses is education.  One of the foundations that it licenses is the CK-12 Foundation.  This foundation seeks to reduce the costs of textbooks for grades K-12 by allowing educators to creative flexible, custom online textbooks and materials, called “flexbooks.”

This is a pretty interesting and innovative way to address an issue in the field of education.  By licensing this foundation, Creative Commons can help in a social area that they feel needs help, and it also helps its business by showing that it sponsors socially responsible and socially driven organizations.