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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg. Apart from rental services, these publishers can earn revenue through banner ads, and also by offering additional learning resources. The teachers can customize an OER and include modules that they feel would benefit the students.

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

Edsurge

They were trying to prep summer courses by linking to the freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, content offered by Lumen Learning, a courseware provider that argues that OER can be a tool in making higher education more equitable. Hi OER Friends! There was confusion.

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To Save Its Campus Bookstore, This University Took It Online

Edsurge

The service can distribute open educational resources, or OER, textbooks that are available to professors and students for free. If I have a choice between three sections of a course, and one has OER and one has a $200 or $300 textbook, I want to know that because that’s a factor in my choice.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. They recorded school resource officers. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright. Students recorded fellow students.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

This Edsurge article – “ OER is Growing at Religious Colleges , But Raises Unique Challenges” – strikes me as a little weird, considering the long relationship between open education (the conference, at the very least) and former BYU professor David Wiley. .” What’s next?” And sure, why not.