The “OER Bill”

David Wiley is reporting on his blog about a new piece of U.S. legislation, H.R. 1464. The bill would mandate that federal agencies which spend more than $10 million on science education spend 2% of their budget on the development of related, college-level OER. The bill is sponsored by Bill Foster of Illinois and would be managed by the Secretary of Energy and the Director of the NSF. From Wiley’s post:

Wow. I am speechless. I’ll now have to split my energy between working to defeat HR 801 and working to get HR 1464 passed. I may not sleep for a very long time….

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