New partnership between SUNY and Lumen aims to take open educational resources to scale

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Summary:

"The State University of New York system has, with its sister City University of New York, become in many ways the center of the open educational resources universe, thanks in part to its size and in (larger) part to the state Legislature's recent multimillion-dollar investments in OER.

On Wednesday SUNY took another step toward solidifying that role with an agreement extending and expanding its current relationship with Lumen Learning, one of the companies that has embedded itself in the open educational resources space to try to improve the quality and increase the usage of OER-based digital courseware.

Under the terms of the three-year agreement, SUNY will cover the costs for all students to use content provided through Lumen at no charge. (OER content itself is typically free, but platforms like Lumen typically charge a per-student, per-course fee to use the platform through which the content is delivered, which often includes homework and feedback tools and other services that textbook publishers have increasingly wrapped around their textbooks.) ..."

Link:

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2019/06/13/new-partnership-between-suny-and-lumen-aims-take-open

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Tags:

oa.new oa.universities oa.oer oa.suny oa.lumen oa.hei

Date tagged:

06/14/2019, 16:08

Date published:

06/14/2019, 12:08