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Pearson, an Investor in Knewton, Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products

Edsurge

Now one of its most high-profile content partners and investors, Pearson , is pulling back. Pearson will no longer use Knewton’s adaptive learning engine for some of its digital offerings. The retrenchment delivers a setback to Knewton, for whom Pearson was the first—and most visible—partner. content providers.

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Startup Hopes to Shake Up Textbook Market By Encouraging a Mix-and-Match of Courseware

Edsurge

In a recent blog post , Feldstein notes that OLI launched a whole new market segment for textbooks, inspiring commercial publishers, including Pearson, Cengage and Wiley, to build their own courseware products that are now growing in adoption. That project is continuing, and it held a virtual meeting this week.

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The CARE Framework

Iterating Toward Openness

As the title of the document makes explicit, the framework aims to contribute to the conversation about the sustainability of OER: “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship” It’s a valuable contribution to that conversation. I struggle to see how this will be possible.

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Reflections on 20 Years of Open Content: Lessons from Open Source

Iterating Toward Openness

In early 1998, a group of advocates got together for a strategy meeting to discuss how they could advance the cause of free software. ” When a commercial publisher switches from using proprietary content to using OER in some of their products, the community’s reaction is largely, “What’s wrong with them?

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New Open Ed. Group Vows to Battle Commercial Publishers for K-12 Contracts

Marketplace K-12

Open Up Resources, a nonprofit that until recently was called the K-12 OER Collaborative, says it will offer openly licensed materials to school districts, and predicts it will achieve savings from what those systems would normally pay for commercial materials.

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Digital Courseware or ePUB – Which is the Future of Higher Education?

Kitaboo on EdTech

According to Pearson Education, 84% teachers , administrators and students think that shifting to digital can solve the challenges of education. Viable adoption options to meet the needs of institutions. According to Pearson , 88% students own laptops, 85% use smartphones and 50% own tablets. A comprehensive learner audience.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “After a special meeting of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, the university announced late Tuesday that it would permit – if certain conditions are met – the white supremacist Richard Spencer to appear on campus.” ” “ Pearson , WTF? The business of OER.