By Kai Thompson: After a somewhat troubled start, Amazon recently announced that their Inspire platform – an “open collaboration service that helps educators discover, gather, and share educational content” – is open for teachers to browse and upload content. While still only in Beta form, this is a significant step forward for the project. The[…]
Today, Senators Durbin, Franken, and King, in conjunction with Representatives Polis and Sinema, introduced the Affordable College Textbook Act to the 115th Congress.
Texas recently passed legislation that takes steps toward expanding availability of open education resources (OER) for college and university students.
Yesterday we asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for permission to file an amicus brief in litigation involving our BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. (Full brief [pdf]; motion [pdf]).