Bryan Alexander

MAY 13, 2016

For example, community college adoption of OER depends on the behavior of institutions that most of their students transfer to. described two undergraduates’ experiences with OER. Which were very positive, including love for low cost, easy access, simulation games (for one class). Profits have collapsed.

OER 40

OER Elsevier Secondary Pearson 40

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. College leaders stress that professors retain as much academic freedom as ever to choose which books to assign.

Pearson 109

Pearson OER Course Accessibility 109

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. million project to use open educational resources (OER) to create degree programs at 38 community colleges.

Education 53

Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“ Hail and Farewell to The Google Books Case ” by James Grimmelmann. “ Pearson gets emergency test scoring contract from Tennessee ,” Chalkbeat reports. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository.

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

They returned a syllabus that was all-white in composition – not just in that the primary authors of the books selected contained no people of color but the books themselves largely avoided America's colonial-settler, chattel-slavery, and racist-imperial history.” Elsevier has acquired Hivebench. weeks in 2015.”

Coursera 60

Coursera Education E-rate Company 60