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Edsurge
JULY 25, 2019
That figure includes texts procured legally, like open educational resources (known as OER), and illegally, such as pirated files shared through torrent websites. Its findings are of special interest in light of recent shifts in the textbook industry. A third may be the growth of so-called inclusive-access programs.
Edsurge
MAY 26, 2020
Top Hat is “partially becoming a publisher—the thing that they’ve long wanted to compete with,” observes Phil Hill, an education industry analyst and consultant. Silagadze likens his model to GitHub, the project collaboration tool popular among the tech industry, whereby users can collaborate and contribute updates. billion in 2018.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
It was 2007, and Larsen was teaching a physical chemistry for life sciences course at the University of California at Davis. But at UC Davis, “administrators could do a lot more in order to facilitate the adoption of OER projects,” Larsen says. Coppola toyed with other open-access resources, but most were too advanced for her students.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 2, 2016
For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. From my experience, the answers usually are: OER resources are in silos. Last year, the U.S.
Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 13, 2019
Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. The State appropriations per full-time student have fallen from an inflation-adjusted $8,489 in 2007 to $7,642 in 2017. Related: Can the US Higher Education Publishing Industry Leverage A Subscription Model. Use eTextbook Rentals.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2019
Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. Inclusive access has already gotten up to acronym status,” he said.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 6, 2016
" The sustainability of these courses – including the persistence of students’ own work – is precarious at best, as Coursera students discovered when the company informed them it would remove hundreds of old courses, along with their access to their coursework, from its site. million in 2013–14.
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