Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Cengage Launches OER Product - Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology

Cengage has introduced OpenNow, a digital content platform for general education courses based on curriculum-aligned open educational resources (OER). All content in OpenNow is openly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY), which allows users to share, adapt, remix and build upon any work, as long as appropriate credit is given. The platform includes content from OpenStax and other OER sources, new open content created by Cengage, plus content previously under a Cengage copyright. "All Cengage content in OpenNow will become open and can be reused, modified and used elsewhere," the company explained in a news announcement. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/10/11/cengage-launches-oer-product.aspx