This document summarizes a best paper award about using open educational resources (OER) through social networking sites and multimedia e-textbooks to promote learner autonomy. It discusses challenges to adopting OER in higher education like technical issues, economic costs, and legal/copyright concerns. It then introduces CHiLO, a proposed architecture that uses a knowledge eco-cycle approach to generate, share and use OER through a community platform and digital textbooks. The document concludes by describing a pilot study conducted by the Open University of Japan to distribute e-textbooks on computers and Japanese language through online bookstores and Facebook, finding it facilitated widespread sharing and distribution of open content.