Learning Resource Metadata Initiative

Creative Commons and the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) announced the “Learning Resource Metadata Initiative,” a project aimed at improving education search and discovery via a common framework for tagging and organizing learning resources on the web. The learning resources framework will be designed to work with schema.org, the web metadata framework recently launched by Google, Bing, and Yahoo!, as well as to work with other metadata technologies and to enable other rich applications.

More info here at the FAQ:

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/LRMI/FAQ