News

Penguin agrees to $75M settlement in Apple iBooks price fixing lawsuit

May 22, 2013 | Posted by Editor | Legal Issues, News

Why can’t everyone be a good corporate citizen? Book publisher Penguin announced on Wednesday it has reached a $75 million “comprehensive agreement” with U.S. State Attorneys General and private class plaintiffs over e-book price fixing allegations connected to Apple and its iBookstore for iOS. http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/05/22/penguin-agrees-to-75m-settlement-in-apple-ibooks-price-fixing-lawsuit Apple goes to court on June 3 for allegedly colluding in this price-fixing scheme., prefering to have their day in court instead of settling with the attorney general.   Why can’t everyone be a... Read more

New Course Frameworks from Lumen Learning Offer Blueprints for Teaching with Open Educational Resources

May 22, 2013 | Posted by Editor | News

Lumen Learning and Instructure broke new ground for open education today with the introduction of six open course frameworks that make teaching... Read more

New Open Education Organization – ICORE International Council for Open Research and Education

May 22, 2013 | Posted by Editor | News

Newly founded international open research and open education organization.  First meeting held in Rome, May 15th, 2013. “ICORE aims to support the design... Read more

Saylor Foundation – $20K Textbook Challenge – Open Textbooks Needed

May 20, 2013 | Posted by Editor | linkedin, News

The Saylor Foundation, in its never-ending quest to provide open, free, and low-cost education, has made excellent progress in providing free complementary... Read more

Research

A Case Study: Amazon.com College Textbook Prices – 1915, 2010 to 2012

October 3, 2012 | Posted by Editor

In 1915 the most expensive textbook was about $2.50 for a Geometry... Read more

Top Community College Courses by Enrollment

February 9, 2012 | Posted by Editor

 Sorted by Course Rank Organization Course Title Rank Category CCOTC Algebra, Elem, Pre(1) 1 Algebra FLA College Algebra 1 Algebra CCC Fall 2008 Mathematics, General                                                        1 Algebra CSU/UC... Read more

Pearson Foundation Survey Shows Students Still Favor Print

January 6, 2012 | Posted by Editor

Pearson Foundation’s Survey on Students and Tablets, conducted in March 2011,  states: The... Read more

Saylor Foundation $20K Open Textbook Challenge!

September 3, 2011 | Posted by Editor

The Saylor Foundation announced their $20k Open Textbook Challenge today, Tuesday, September... Read more

OpEd

Education Secretary Duncan Wants Textbooks to Go Digital

October 2, 2012 | Posted by Editor

The SF Chronicle Article: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Education-chief-wants-textbooks-to-go-digital-3913021.php Looks like another “great American education experiment” is... Read more