Company Examples OER Pearson 
Edsurge
AUGUST 4, 2022
In May, the homework-help site that relies on student-generated content, Course Hero, dipped its toes into freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, course materials. This was the company’s “first foray” into OER, and it is still figuring out how the OER fits, Morris says. “I
Marketplace K-12
MAY 16, 2016
Few corporate brand names in education are as recognizable, and as polarizing, as Pearson, the giant education provider whose reach extends to virtual schools, testing, language training and an array of other areas. Pearson officials have been talking about shifting away from being identified as simply a publishing company for years now.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2021
based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset. But last year Pearson acquired the assets of Smart Sparrow , leading ASU to look for an alternative platform to deliver its offerings, which had also been growing in use. A key premise of the Lexington, Mass.-based
Iterating Toward Openness
APRIL 29, 2016
Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” OER often shine in their variety and ability to deepen resources for niche topics. ” The article poses three questions and answers them. ” As we see in other areas (e.g.,
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. Another: individual faculty are often caught between publishers (so far, everyone here hates sales reps) and their tenure/hiring/promotion/review companies (strong sense of long-serving profs as obstacles).
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. Another: individual faculty are often caught between publishers (so far, everyone here hates sales reps) and their tenure/hiring/promotion/review companies (strong sense of long-serving profs as obstacles).
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
Think for a minute about all the people and companies that have created really amazing commercial offerings based on Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP, Ruby, Node, React, or WordPress. ”, you declare, “the overwhelming majority of OER in the world are licensed in ways that permit commercial use, so what’s the problem?”
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