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To Save Its Campus Bookstore, This University Took It Online

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We know that college students’ tastes for digital services have the power to make companies snap to attention. The service can distribute open educational resources, or OER, textbooks that are available to professors and students for free. Kaji says that five years ago, about 8 percent of course materials were digital.

OER 157
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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.) The Flipped Classroom".

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Course Hero Quietly Took Over Hosting Lumen’s OER Content. They Say It’s No Big Deal

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Clicking onto their favorite courses at the end of May, educators found that they were getting redirected somewhere else. To their surprise, however, the educators found themselves not on Lumen’s website but on Course Hero, a homework-help site that’s blocked by some higher ed institutions for its use by some students as a cheating tool.

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