
OER Digest- May 16th, 2019
From Kaitlyn Vitez and Nick Sengstaken (USPIRG) | Volume 81 | May 16th, 2019
THE OER DIGEST
Your bi-weekly newsletter for open education updates, opportunities, and reminders
PUBLISHER CONSOLIDATION CONTINUES: Shortly after Cengage and McGraw-Hill announced their intention to merge (our top story in the last edition), another textbook publisher, Wiley, finalized the purchase of Knewton. The eleven year old ed tech startup has focused on adaptive learning technology and, recently, lower-cost access codes based on openly licensed content. While this acquisition is giving some advocates more reason to worry about greater consolidation of publishers in an already tight marketplace, it also shows that there are increasing pressures on major players to expand their lower-cost offerings. Read more “OER Digest- May 16th, 2019”