David Wiley continues to drift further and further away from the idea of open learning. In this submission to the U.S. Department of Education's proposed rule "Open Textbook Pilot Program" he argues against the idea of "requiring grant recipients to use only openly licensed or freely available tools to support the delivery, usage, maintenance, and support of open textbooks," and he argues against the requirement that "assessments designed to measure student learning to be released under the same open licensing terms as instructional content. His argument is that "if the Department does act on these comments, the parts of the work that are open will be more widely adopted." Maybe so, but who cares? It's like an airline saying "the flight is free, but we charge you for the take-off and landing."
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