OER Vendor Top Hat Commits to CARE; Opens Content -- Campus Technology

"An open education resource vendor has committed to following the CARE Framework for the care and feeding of OER available through its site, while also announcing that 90 percent of the resources in its own OER repository will be freely available to students. Top Hat, which has a cloud-based teaching platform and other digital learning tools, announced its "open content initiative," eliminating platform or subscription fees for access to its course content Marketplace. According to the company, 90 percent of the 20,000 digital resources, textbooks and other curricula in its repository are free. Other content is available for pricing between a few dollars and $86. The materials cover 20 different academic disciplines. All of the content is customizable by instructors; the original authors may choose to accept the revisions and share updated versions of their materials with those who have downloaded it...."