Amazon’s Education Hub, Amazon Inspire, Has Quietly Restored ‘Sharing’ Function | EdSurge

Amazon has quietly re-opened a previously-controversial sharing feature that allows allow anyone to add to its directory of online educational ...

"Leaders of school districts and state boards of education have been looking for repositories of open educational resources in part to respond to a U.S. Department of Education challenge called #GoOpen, which encourages replacing commercial textbooks with openly-licensed online materials. Peters says that some states ended up deciding to pick other platforms, like OERCommons, in their efforts to organize and review open materials created or used by their teachers...

Amazon has quietly re-opened a previously-controversial sharing feature that allows allow anyone to add to its directory of online educational ...

"Leaders of school districts and state boards of education have been looking for repositories of open educational resources in part to respond to a U.S. Department of Education challenge called #GoOpen, which encourages replacing commercial textbooks with openly-licensed online materials. Peters says that some states ended up deciding to pick other platforms, like OERCommons, in their efforts to organize and review open materials created or used by their teachers...