Article Company Industry OER 
Edsurge
MARCH 5, 2018
While OER was presented as one way to ease course material costs, other challenges remain, starting with understanding and awareness of what the term means. Still, sustainable ways to fund OER into the future remains an open question. Austin, Texas outside of the SXSW EDU conference And that was just the start.
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. Many of the silos are poorly organized.
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Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 29, 2018
The second obstacle standing in the way of the broad adoption of free software was the word “free” Many free software advocates understood that without adoption and use by business and industry, free software would never live up to its transformative potential. I was a big fan of free software, if not a big fan of the movement.
Marketplace K-12
MARCH 25, 2016
The move follows news earlier this year that Amazon Education is working on Inspire , a platform on which schools will be able to upload, manage, share, and discover such resources, known as OER. While some industry observers see OER as a challenger to the content and curriculum that schools pay for, others are more sanguine.
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 18, 2019
They understood the outsized influence that billion dollar behemoths like Microsoft would continue to have, and knew that the only way the open source model could “win” would be if proprietary software companies adopted it. These are huge companies that compete directly with each other in many ways.
edWeb.net
DECEMBER 5, 2019
Open Educational Resources (OER) – These are educational materials in the public domain or introduced with an open license. This article was modified and published by EdScoop. Dan believes the education industry is poised to merge educators’ passion for teaching and learning with data that maximize their effectiveness.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
.” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms.
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