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Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free—and Be Financially Sustainable?
From 2006 to 2016, the cost of textbooks increased by 88 percent, more than than nearly any other college student expense—including tuition and fees (63 percent) or on-campus housing (51 percent)—according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. From 2006 to 2016, the...
Big ‘Open’ Educational Resources Provider Joins Forces With Microsoft
A leading provider of “open” educational resources has secured a potentially huge platform for reaching K-12 schools by striking a partnership with Microsoft to deliver its curriculum through the tech giant’s classroom products.The nonprofit Open Up...
ISKME Names New Board Chair and Expands Board With Higher Education Data Expert
To support OER innovation and expansion, ISKME names Cisco General Manger Jason Goecke as chair of its board and higher education data expert Nicole Melander as newest board member. To support OER innovation and expansion, ISKME names Cisco General Manger Jason Goecke...
Feds Come Around to OER — Slowly
Three times since 2013, members in both houses of Congress have introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act, which would create a federal program to fund the creation of open educational resources on a nationwide scale. Each time, that bill has faltered in...
Open Educational Resources Movement Scales Up
Open educational resources typically have been offered to educators in bite-sized chunks—an individual lesson here, a classroom module there—and have been meant to fill in holes the core curriculum does not address.But over the past few years, a number of...