MOOC OER Pearson Video 
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
[Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. And the idea of pivoting away from that at the exact moment Pearson, Cengage, and McGraw-Hill are adopting that approach seems a bit too convenient.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. Pearson is Not a Platform. Pearson does not have a platform.
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Hack Education
OCTOBER 7, 2016
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Pearson has issued a report on students’ attitudes toward digital course materials. Raise $146.1 million in venture funding; ask people to work for you for free.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX. ” “ Pearson , WTF? The business of OER. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Via The Chicago Tribune : “Almost all student loan fraud claims involve for-profit colleges , study finds.”
Hack Education
MAY 5, 2017
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley.
Hack Education
AUGUST 31, 2018
His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Ian Bogost writes in The Atlantic on “The Irony of the Jacksonville Mass Shooting ,” where “two former athletes were killed playing a supposedly safer, video-game alternative to football.”
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Viral School Videos. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless. The Flipped Classroom".
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