Wiley Muses on Open Textbook Bill

David has a series of blog posts discussing what he’d like to see a hypothetical open textbook bill look like. Posts are available in Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Also, Stephen Downes posts (Part 1 and Part 2) short responses with more promised on the way. From Wiley’s Part 1:

All grant recipients would have to meet a handful of requirements:

• A content-complete version of the open textbook must go online with all text, images, and other features of the printed version available to the public for free, unrestricted, unfettered access
• The online version of the open textbook must clearly display it’s open license and include appropriate embedded license metadata to allow search engines like Google and Yahoo to index it as an openly licensed resource