Groom & Lamb: "We dream of higher education that embraces its role as a guardian of knowledge, that energetically creates and zealously protects publicly-minded spaces promoting enlightenment and the exchange of ideas. We need green spaces for conviviality on the web. Institutions of higher education-and the open ed techs who work in them-are in a unique position to create and preserve these spaces."
Kevin Carey: "The $2-billion Labor-Education project could transport the open-resource movement to a new level of prominence. Because the materials will be developed under the auspices of a federal-government competition, they will carry an assumed mark of quality absent from random lectures posted on YouTube. The departments also plan to organize the materials so that educators can search and shape them into rational sequences of learning."
"DHOER is turning a comprehensive range of teaching and learning resources from a series of introductory courses into Digital Humanities taught at the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, into multimedia and Web 2.0 enriched Open Educational Resources (OERs), published on the internet and freely available to anyone. "