State of Washington to Offer Online Materials, Instead of Textbooks, for 2-Year Colleges - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"So with a $750,000 matching grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the board has started an ambitious program to develop low-cost, online instructional materials for its community and technical colleges. For the Open Course Library, as the materials are known, teams of community-college instructors, librarians, and Web designers from around the state are creating ready-to-use digital course modules for the 81 highest-enrolled courses....The basic design requirements of the Open Course Library are simple enough. The material must be available online and accessible to anyone...."