2008 Education OER Strategy 
Iterating Toward Openness
AUGUST 31, 2022
This article started out with my being bothered by the fact that ‘OER adoption reliably saves students money but does not reliably improve their outcomes.’ ’ For many years OER advocates have told faculty, “When you adopt OER your students save money and get the same or better outcomes!”
Edsurge
JANUARY 15, 2019
Open educational resources hit a turning point in 2018. For the first time ever, the federal government put forward funds to support initiatives around open educational resources, and recent studies show that faculty attitudes towards using and adapting these openly-licensed learning materials are steadily improving.
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Edsurge
MAY 6, 2019
In that context, that non-disclosure may be revealing for how far Knewton, which has been one of the most well-funded education technology companies, has fallen short of financial expectations. Wiley, once a major publisher of higher-education materials, has seen its education publishing business shrink over the years.
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. For example, in mid-July, publishing giant Pearson announced it will adopt a “digital first” strategy for updating college course materials.
Iterating Toward Openness
JULY 7, 2016
Take, for example, the Murder, Madness, and Mayhem assessments from 2008: The University of British Columbia’s class SPAN312 (“Murder, Madness, and Mayhem: Latin American Literature in Translation”) contributed to Wikipedia during Spring 2008. “You promise learn. Students save money and learn the same amount.
Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 13, 2017
The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education. New York, NY: Pearson Education. Education is sharing. Copyright law places artificial limits on our ability to use technology to share educational materials.
Edsurge
MAY 23, 2019
And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). Markson, Cengage’s strategy officer, argued that the company is “extremely committed” to driving down costs for students.
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