I was perusing the original link to the Collaborative Statistics book, discovering that there were updates made on Dec 5 (maybe an RSS feature here would be useful, although I see that they are tracked), and found a section on resources that contains a half hour video lecture to accompany each of the chapters.  Maybe this is new too, or maybe I missed it the first time around.  Regardless, this OER is setting the access bar even higher by including close captioning for the video, and a link to the right of the video that takes me to the relevant chapter of the book.  This is a nice navigational feature.

Judy Baker kindly provided me with a link to a very interesting video series called Against All Odds but I can’t open any of the Windows Media Player files (despite having downloaded it and updated all my applications–I’m on a Mac OSX).  This took me back to my 2001 experiment where I spent about 30% of my self-directed study time locating resources and downloading an assortment of pesky plug ins.  I certainly understand why Quicktime is a player of choice in Distance Education development, and perhaps in the interest of OER accessibility some of these things need to be addressed.