Great to hear this story - looking forward to pointing many people towards it as an overview of what OERs are, and why educators (and people in general) should care!
I wanted to note that there is an analogue to the free and open source software world's adoption of GitHub in the OER world: https://wikieducator.org
Disclosure: I'm employed by the OER Foundation as Open Source Technologist, and part of my role is to maintain the Wikieducator site, which is built on the open source MediaWiki platform - our code is found in two places: https://bitbucket.org/wikieducator/ and https://github.com/oeru
Of course there are many flavours (as there are many "open" licenses). The trick is to avoid the heavily publicised "open" things which are, in fact, closed. It's our job, as people with the motivation to become as open as we can (with the principle "open is better") to point out closed when it masquerades as open. Thanks for your efforts in raising awareness.
Great to hear this story - looking forward to pointing many people towards it as an overview of what OERs are, and why educators (and people in general) should care!
I wanted to note that there is an analogue to the free and open source software world's adoption of GitHub in the OER world: https://wikieducator.org
Disclosure: I'm employed by the OER Foundation as Open Source Technologist, and part of my role is to maintain the Wikieducator site, which is built on the open source MediaWiki platform - our code is found in two places: https://bitbucket.org/wikieducator/ and https://github.com/oeru