Curriculum providers Open Up Resources and Illustrative Mathematics say they’ve settled a dispute over attribution rules for their materials.
Open Up Resources, a provider of openly licensed educational materials, says a group of companies using its curriculum are not giving its work proper attribution.
The State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) found that more states are providing guidance to help districts select and implement digital instructional materials.
EdWeek Market Brief moderated three sessions at the recent ASU/GSV summit, all of them captured on video: on open educational resources; the Chinese education market, and the role of Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft in U.S. schools.
College learning materials publisher FlatWorld releases a customizable textbook; supplemental education company Infobase acquires Credo Reference; OER courseware provider Lumen raises funds.
The giant education company says it will sell an enhanced version of the curriculum created by Illustrative Mathematics, which also reached a separate deal with publisher Kendall Hunt.
Open Educational Resources Provider Talks About Shaking Up the K-12 Market
Illustrative Mathematics' CEO Outlines How Her Organization Tries to Distinguish Itself From Its Rivals
Illustrative Mathematics CEO Lisa O’Masta, who leads one of the country’s biggest providers of open educational resources, explains what districts want from curriculum.
A federal appeals court rejected Great Minds’ argument that the national office supply chain needs to compensate it for copying K-12 math materials. But a separate case is still moving through the courts.
Virginia state education officials want a content management system open educational resources; and a Utah district is looking to buy human resources management software.
Twenty one states today have a process for reviewing districts’ choices of instructional materials, compared with just 14 two years ago, according to the State Educational Technology Directors Association.