Karen Fasimpaur has a new blog post discussing a concept paper for funding K-12 OER with stimulus money. Fasimpaur is looking for others who would be interested in collaborating on the project. From the concept paper:
The final key to this challenge [lack of student engagement] is assembling a wide collection of engaging, relevant, and diverse learning resources. Textbooks clearly do not meet this need. Commercial electronic resources are engaging and high quality, but can be very expensive and do not generally allow for customization due to copyright restrictions. An alternative is open resources: high quality, digital, multimedia resources that are open licensed, freely sharable, and remixable. This allows teachers and learners to use them in a variety of forms and combinations to maximize learning potential.
