“One way for students to pursue their degree without having to spend a dime is through Open Education Resources. OERs offer free educational materials such as lesson plans, open textbooks and course work that are used under license and used repeatedly by others. The subjects available range from Humanities to Mathematics and can be used in its original form, altered form, a combination of both, or redistributed all for free.”

Affordable College Textbook Act Would Help Students, But Publishers Aren’t Hearing It, Houston Press, March 28, 2014

It’s been very interesting to see how the mainstream media is beginning to become interested in the idea of OER (although, to be precise, Houston Press is an alt-weekly).