Dear Gene, Satendra and Sarita ji, While googling for legislation on OER/Open text book, the first web page I got was that of Sen. Durbin's bill, known as the Open College Textbook Act, which was introduced in Sept/2009. While going through the Senator's web page http://durbin.senate.gov/showRelease.cfm?releaseId=318279 and the bill at http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-1714, we would realize that we, who work for OER/Open Text Books, have strong fraternity among legislators and policy makers at various parts of this green planet. As Gene has suggested we have to thank and also converge these efforts to a world platform for a better world.
I would like to suggest that we may *Start a project page on WE ,ie, an OER on OER legislations *List various legislations from around the glob with summary *Study about how they can influence the growth of OER/Open Text Book and their effective use *Study the outcomes *Information on region specific open license norms *.....And more that you can add These will be useful for researches, production of OER/Open Text Book, legislators and policy makers for further legislation alike and promote the creation and use of OER/Open Text Books. Your thoughts???.... Warm regards Anil http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Anil_Prasad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
