Top Hat Makes Access to OER Free - Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed

Top Hat, a company that provides cloud-based teaching tools, has made access to open educational resources free on its platform. Under Top Hat’s old pricing structure, students would have paid $26 for one semester to access Top Hat’s online textbooks, 90 percent of which are OER. Now students will be able to access these resources through the Top Hat platform at no cost. Publishers and ed-tech companies have recently been criticized for charging users to access free OER materials on their proprietary platforms. https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/04/13/top-hat-makes-access-oer-free