successful applicants received $15,000 to complete a course redesign. librarians, instructional designers and institutional researchers were also asked to apply. like faculty, these successful applicants also received grants of $15,000. each winning faculty member or team designed a ready-to-use digital course module. teams were composed of community college instructors, librarians, and web-designers. in fall 2011 the first 42 courses created were released. the use of ocl materials is not mandated for washington's community colleges and technical schools. faculty course designers, however, are asked to adopt what they have designed. there were over 25,000 visits from 125 countries over the first four months. nonetheless, there have been challenges: good material is not always available online for adoption and sometimes the best materials (for instance translations of primary sources published in foreign languages) are not available free.