Open source and open content are ratified by the Spelling Report from the US Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education. More details from Inside Higher Ed. http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/01/commission
Like the European Union, the UK Government and JISC, the US Secretary of Education’s Commission finds strongly in favour of Open Source and Open Content developments ….
‘The commission encourages the creation of incentives to promote the development of open-source and open-content projects at universities and colleges across the United States, enabling the open sharing of educational materials from a variety of institutions, disciplines, and educational perspectives. Such a portal could stimulate innovation, and serve as the leading resource for teaching and learning. New initiatives such as OpenCourseWare, the Open Learning Initiative, the Sakai Project, and the Google Book project hold out the potential of providing universal access both to general knowledge and to higher education.’
