Macmillan’s new white paper on their approach to efficacy is an illuminating counterpoint to Cengage’s Unlimited strategy in the battle that’s unfolding in the curricular materials industry.
Curricular-Materials
This category includes digital curricular materials, including adaptive learning, assessments, OER, etc., as well as the vendors who sell them.
Before We Turn Over Curriculum To Apple And Amazon . . .
Clarifications on my recent media comments about Apple and their initiative to push Swift programming and how colleges and universities need to tread carefully
Cengage Unlimited Draws the Battle Lines in the Curricular Materials War
Which will win: “Good enough” or “better enough”?
Cengage Unlimited – Marketing ploy or significant change in strategy?
Cengage Unlimited – a marketing-driven ploy to be “Netflix of education” or significant change in stratregy for the publisher? It appears the latter is more accurate, and impact could affect whole market.
Cengage OpenNow: Big news on the OER front hiding in plain sight
Cengage announces OpenNow, their full entry into using OER – a move that we’ve been tracking since at least 2011 at e-Literate
Recommended Reading … or Not: Updates on UC Berkeley and NBER stories
We have a better understanding of UC Berkeley’s decision to remove free video lecture captures in response to an accessibility suit. Less so on Caroline Hoxby’s problematic paper on the ROI of online learning.
Lumen and Follett: Canary in the Curricular Materials Coal Mine?
The investment by one of the US’s largest textbook distributors in an OER company portends a larger shift in the curricular materials markets.