Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 24, 2017
Five years ago, in an essay called 2017: RIP OER? , I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” ” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks.
Edsurge
JANUARY 26, 2017
Five years ago, in an essay called “ 2017: RIP OER? ” I pondered whether this year would be the end of OER. There’s certainly no one funding next gen OER. Much has been written about 2012 being “the year of OER.” Let’s hope it’s not the year OER peaks. These publisher platforms can have real benefits.
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Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2021
In a recent blog post , Feldstein notes that OLI launched a whole new market segment for textbooks, inspiring commercial publishers, including Pearson, Cengage and Wiley, to build their own courseware products that are now growing in adoption. Since the pandemic, Carnegie Mellon has seen an uptick in people using OLI courseware.
Edsurge
AUGUST 21, 2018
Alta at a Glance With Alta, Knewton aims to combine third-party open educational resources (OER) with assessments and the adaptive-learning technology created by the company to inform how students progress through the content. Those who struggle will have to answer more questions or watch additional videos than those who don’t.
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.
Kitaboo on EdTech
JUNE 13, 2019
Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg. If educational institutes start adopting OERs in classrooms, students will be able to save a lot of money that would otherwise be spent on purchasing textbooks and rental subscriptions. but they do get to save money through this model.
Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 29, 2018
Twenty years ago, proprietary software companies like Microsoft were equivalent to the devil himself for many in the open source community, much as commercial publishers like Pearson are demonized by many in the open education movement today. I don’t trust them. What made them think we’d want them involved in our movement?”
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