Hawai’i senate committee recommends bill mandating OER material for all courses at the University of Hawai’i system over significant faculty protests
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Top Hat Marketplace: What is it and should we care?
Despite initial questions about Top Hat Marketplace, the deeper I look the more convinced I am that this is something to watch
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
Some Notes On Lumen Learning’s $3.75 million Funding Round Led By Follett
OER implementation gets a major investor with a lot of leverage in the market.
Cengage and OER Podcast Series: Two steps forward and one step back
Cengage seems both serious and honest in their ongoing attempts to understand the growing role of OER in the curricular materials market, but they are still climbing the learning curve.
About The New Florida Virtual Campus Survey On Textbooks
As long-time readers know, I strongly believe that the national discussion about the costs of textbooks and course materials is more productive when we focus on actual student behaviors and impacts, rather than artificial numbers used by many organizations. There may be short-term benefit from claiming or implying that the average college student spends $1200 […]
About That Cengage OER Survey
Last month Cengage Learning released a white paper titled “Open Educational Resources (OER) and the Evolving Higher Education Landscape” where the headline called out expected increases in OER adoption:
“Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education have the potential to triple in use as primary courseware over the next five years.”
“Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education have the potential to triple in use as primary courseware over the next five years.”