open course library (ocl) is an effort by the state of washington to identify and make available digitally, to community and technical college instructors and students across that state, free textbooks, interactive assignments, and videos. instructional materials can be "a smorgasbord of teaching modules and exercises developed by other open-learning projects. . . interactive-learning web sites and even instructional videos on youtube . . ." however, ocl is not an oer publishing project, although it did contribute to the development of some widely used resources. goals include: lowering textbook costs for students, providing new resources for faculty to use in their courses; and fully engaging in the global oer or open educational resources discussion.