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. states and two Canadian provinces.
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
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
While in Big Soda the main players are Coke and Pepsi, their equivalent in the publishing industry are Pearson and Cengage (which has announced that plans to merge with McGraw-Hill). That’s one argument made by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, or SPARC, which advocates for lower textbook costs and OER.
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. The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Another report – this one from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities – claimed that “states are collectively investing 17 percent less in their public colleges and universities, or $1,525 less per student, since 2007.” From 2007 to 2015, total outstanding federal student loan debt doubled from $516 billion to $1.2
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