February 2020 Archives

OER Digest – February 20, 2020

From Mo Nyamweya, SPARC | Volume 100 | February 20, 2020

With updates from Ethan Senack

THE OER DIGEST: 100TH EDITION

The OER Digest started out with a very simple goal — to reduce the amount of time that we spent talking about the same news and updates on different conference calls. In the 5 years since, the Digest has grown to be a core source of OER news for thousands of people, expanded to include a host of new authors, and to reach our 100th edition this week. Those of us who have been involved in the digest are so grateful to our whole community of readers for their support, and we thought we’d celebrate this edition by checking back in on some of our top stories from the first editions to see where they are now. – Ethan Senack, original Digest author

OER Digest – February 7th, 2020

From Kaitlyn Vitez and Cailyn Nagle (USPIRG) | Volume 99 | February 6th, 2020

THE OER DIGEST

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AUTOMATIC BILLING LAWSUIT: Major textbook publishers and college bookstore chains are facing a class action lawsuit from independent booksellers. The independent bookstores argue that the automatic textbook billing programs, also known as “inclusive access”, promoted by the defendants amounts to a “conspiracy” that edges independent bookstores out of the market. Last year, an independent bookstore in South Carolina filed a lawsuit on similar grounds against Trident Technical College due to their automatic billing process, claiming it was an anticompetitive practice. Read more →

OER Digest – February 20, 2020

OER Digest – February 7th, 2020

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