By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. For-Profit Involvement in OER - Part 6
Dan McGuire, 2017/04/19

More on Lumen Learning. "The $10-$25 per course that Lumen-Follett is collecting to provide the 'packaging' for free OER courses is a steep price," writes Dan McGuire. More...

California State University system and VitalSource aim to bridge the gap between OER and traditional learning materials, increase adoption. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Cengage, an education and technology company, today announced The Journey to OER, a podcast series examining open educational resources (OER), the changing role of content in the classroom, and how OER is being used in courses to help students succeed. More...

The RISE (Resource Inspection, Selection, and Enhancement) Framework is a framework supporting the continuous improvement of open educational resources (OER).  The framework is an automated process that identifies learning resources that should be evaluated and either eliminated or improved. This is particularly useful in OER contexts where the copyright permissions of resources allow for remixing, editing, and improving content. More...

This paper presents a review of distance education literature published in the International Review of Research in Open and Distance/Distributed Learning (IRRODL) to describe the status thereof and to identify gaps and priority areas in distance education research based on a validated classification of research areas. All articles (N = 580) published between 2000 and 2015 were reviewed for this study. More...