Ken, I must compliment Penn State's reflective approach based on solid academic tradition, before taking a substantive decision like licensing of OERs. Your institution has the benefit of hindsight which the early pioneers did not have at their disposal.
While I'm not an expert on the US Higher Education system - I think that the dialog around this issues you have listed are well aligned with the original mission of the Land Grant universities. The critical question is closely linked to what it means to be a Land Grant university in the knowledge society - particularly with the rapid growth in free content made possible by Web 2.0 technologies.
It's by no means an easy decision - but who said leadership would be easy?
Have enjoyed the interactions generated by these replies which confirms that we're busy with important work!
Cheers
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