Amazon Education, Amazon Inspire Move Forward

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-16

Summary:

"Amazon is currently testing a tool that it says can better help teachers search through open educational resources (OER), and the company is now inviting select teachers to take part in a private beta test of the platform. The online retail giant is planning to offer the platform at no cost to educators as part of its plan to diversify its revenue stream while better positioning itself among its customer base. According to Tech Crunch, the company opened an 'Amazon Education Wait List' earlier in the month.  The new platform, 'Amazon Inspire,' would allow teachers to upload, manage, share, and discover resources in a similar fashion to the reviewing and purchasing systems already in existence through Amazon.  Content will be searchable using assigned metadata tags organized by the federal Learning Registry, and will aid in an effort to collect data concerning how digital resources are created and used ..."

Link:

http://www.educationnews.org/technology/amazon-education-amazon-inspire-move-forward/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.amazon oa.education oa.oer oa.tools

Date tagged:

03/16/2016, 10:14

Date published:

03/16/2016, 06:14