http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/09/new-us-bill-proposes-oer-mand...

The ever-illuminating Peter Subers alerts us to a federal mandate for Open Educational Resources. Cool to see someone on that level call for it!

This comes after state-level resources like California's http://www.opensourcetext.org/ and Florida's http://www.theorangegrove.org/OpenTextbooks/open_textbooksFL.asp, as well as broader initiatives like http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/ and http://cnx.org/ that have been in the cooker stage for some time.

I really look forward to the day when educational institutions make use of these resources to lower costs to students and to make a thorough education for their students both cheaper and more ubiquitous.