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Appropriations Bill May Strip Federal Funding for Open Educational Resources - 0 views

The House Appropriations Committee has just released the draft of the bill that would fund the Departments of Labor, Education and Health and Human Services for the 2012 fiscal year. There's a lot ...

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EdNET Insight | Textbook Rental: Web-Rejuvenation Rocks Post-Secondary Market - 0 views

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anonymous on 10 Jun 11

"The Rental Phenomenon In the past two years, the post-secondary textbook rental market has exploded. Driven by the outcry over book prices, federal legislation, readily available pricing information on the Internet, and sophisticated web-based rental management platforms, old and new competitors are disrupting the $10 billion college textbook business. Book rental isn't really a new phenomenon-a few college stores have been renting books since the Civil War. The National Association of College Stores (NACS) proclaimed fall 2010 as the "Year of the Rental." Players include long-timers like Follett and Budgetext, institutional stores and fast-growing start-ups. BookRenter, started in 2008, netted $40 million from investors in a funding round this past February. Chegg, started in 2007, has raised $200+ million in venture capital and attracted senior management from Yahoo and Netflix. The same drivers are growing trade in used books, eBooks, and online instructional content. Rental is also driving new business models for sourcing and distributing educational materials that may carry the industry forward into digital. Having book inventory isn't necessarily required-at least one high-flying firm, BookRenter, exists mainly as an online marketplace. Read on to see how this change in distribution is impacting the higher education market. Next month we'll look at what all this means for K-12."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The Rental Phenomenon In the past two years, the post-secondary textbook rental market has exploded. Driven by the outcry over book prices, federal legislation, readily available pricing information on the Internet, and sophisticated web-based rental management platforms, old and new competitors are disrupting the $10 billion college textbook business. Book rental isn't really a new phenomenon-a few college stores have been renting books since the Civil War. The National Association of College Stores (NACS) proclaimed fall 2010 as the "Year of the Rental." Players include long-timers like Follett and Budgetext, institutional stores and fast-growing start-ups. BookRenter, started in 2008, netted $40 million from investors in a funding round this past February. Chegg, started in 2007, has raised $200+ million in venture capital and attracted senior management from Yahoo and Netflix. The same drivers are growing trade in used books, eBooks, and online instructional content. Rental is also driving new business models for sourcing and distributing educational materials that may carry the industry forward into digital. Having book inventory isn't necessarily required-at least one high-flying firm, BookRenter, exists mainly as an online marketplace. Read on to see how this change in distribution is impacting the higher education market. Next month we'll look at what all this means for K-12."</div>

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Brazil Pushes OER - Big Time | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

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anonymous on 30 Jun 11

"This development is getting a great deal of attention in the OER community as well as by the Creative Commons movement which supports REA and open education. If adopted the legislation would require open access for any federally subsidized or funded educational works to be made available through an open license."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"This development is getting a great deal of attention in the OER community as well as by the Creative Commons movement which supports REA and open education. If adopted the legislation would require open access for any federally subsidized or funded educational works to be made available through an open license."</div>

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