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OER Pioneer David Wiley Predicts All Community Colleges Will Dump Traditional Textbooks By 2024

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David Wiley, a pioneer of open education resources who co-founded Lumen Learning , a for-profit company that supports OER efforts, sees one place where textbooks could actually be vanquished by openly licensed alternatives: community colleges. Why create a for-profit to push for things to be open and accessible? We publish in journals.

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Do We Need a National Open Education Strategy?

Iterating Toward Openness

To hear some OER advocates describe it today in 2024, the same format that was being used in the late 2000s – traditional-looking textbooks published under open licenses – is the state of the art when it comes to open educational resources. And that’s essentially where innovation stopped.

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Reflections on a Conversation about a US National Open Education Policy

Iterating Toward Openness

For many years now what people call OER advocacy has actually been “zero textbook cost” advocacy. So for the last decade or so there has been a lot of energy devoted to either “OER programs with a laser focus on cost savings” or “zero textbook cost” programs.

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How to Become the Netflix of Textbooks—and Make a Digital-First Transformation

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Open Educational Resources (OER): Lumen Learning’s David Wiley recently predicted that OER will eradicate textbooks in community colleges by 2024, forcing companies to redefine “affordable” with new products, such as MindTap ACE from Cengage.

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” Via WaPo : “Texas House passes ‘bathroom bill’ restricting transgender student access.” Via Edsurge : “OER Pioneer David Wiley Predicts All Community Colleges Will Dump Traditional Textbooks By 2024.” ” Immigration and Education. ” Education in the Courts. .”