Amazon's Plans for OER
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Amazon's Plans for OER
Audrey Watters, Hack Education, 2016/02/18
As Audrey Watters notes in this post, Silicon Valley is not helping (nor should be be relied upon) to solve the high cost of textbooks. For example, "what we might actually read from Jobs’ plans is less about a shift from 'expensive' to 'free' than a shift in power from governmental bodies to technology platforms as the locus of control." More...