I think this article does not require a login, and I wanted to pass it on as it's indirectly relevant to the Sage education community, since Sage itself (and certainly the many texts it supports) is an open educational resource.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Professors-Worry-About-the/245435 A possibly not-representative quote: "OER is not closing the achievement gap for underserved populations in math. A product like Pearson offers much more powerful resources, metrics, and both student and instructor use advantages compared to any OER courseware availability in math." See also: * Older COHE article: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Use-of-Free-Textbooks-Is/242086?cid=rclink * Letter to editor by a textbook author in a more rapidly-changing field: https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/letters/there-are-good-reasons-that-textbooks-cost-money/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-edu+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
