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Colleges Are Striking Bulk Deals With Textbook Publishers. Critics Say There Are Many Downsides.

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And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). If you make it too expensive, colleges are going to look harder at OER,” she said. Concern About Lock-In?

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Via NPR : “ Wyoming School District Stalls On Transgender Student Policy.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. From iNACOL: “ Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning.”

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More, via Inside Higher Ed , on various colleges’ OER initiatives. Elsevier has acquired Hivebench. The New York Times covers its own recent education event : “Educators Discuss the Future of Higher Education.” ” Funny headline as most of the speakers at this annual event aren’t actually educators.