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As OER Grows Up, Advocates Stress More Than Just Low Cost

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But fans of OER are increasingly facing a problem. While OER started off as free online textbooks, it still costs money to produce these materials, and professors often need guidance finding which ones are high quality. So OER advocates are realizing they need to change their pitch.

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10 of the best K-12 sources for digital textbooks online

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While textbook publishing companies now offer digital versions, you can also find open textbook options online. Experts developed OpenStax’s digital textbooks, so you can feel confident that the information is accurate. OER Commons. OER Commons is a digital library full of open educational resources (OER).

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As Textbook Companies Try New Options, Many Students Say Price Is Biggest Factor

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One crucial part of the decision is out of the students’ hands, of course, since it is the professor who decides what textbook or material to assign—or whether to skip commercial textbooks altogether and assign a free or low-cost open educational resource, or OER. I try to just rent them for the semester,” she says. a semester.

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New Partnership Between EBSCO Information Services and Intellus Learning Announced

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EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Intellus Learning , an educational platform as a service company, have partnered to provide academic libraries with a content curation, assignment, recommendation and analytics tool.

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Hitting Reset, Knewton Tries New Strategy: Competing With Textbook Publishers

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Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Now the company has pivoted, and it is poised to formally announce its own online courseware that will compete head-to-head with those publishing giants.

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The Digital Library’s Best-Kept Secret

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It wasn’t until three semesters into my degree, after spending $1,000 dollars merely renting my textbooks that I discovered my University’s ebook library. After learning about open educational resources (OER) at the HEeD Think Tank last spring (now. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. There is clearly a disconnect here.

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Open Up Resources Takes A Digital Leap Through Kiddom Partnership

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Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5 The platform also offers a library of supplemental resources from third-party providers. That data can also inform updates to Open Up’s curriculum. million in investment to date. That’s why the partnership with Kiddom is important.