Thanks for this thoughtful blog post. Your comments about “free” are very on point. While end users may not may much if any money for OERs, there is a cost to produce, sustain and use them (time, money, etc.)

Would be curious to hear your thoughts about Dr. Kurshan’s recent article, “Free Education: Sustaining Open Source Curriculum”:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-barbara-kurshan/free-education—-sustain_b_313397.html

If you have not visited Curriki–a community of educators and repository of over 32,000 K-12 OERs, I welcome you to visit the site.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!
Anna

PS I welcome you to pass along some OER cheer with these holiday greetings: http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Holiday