So if it is said that ‘Being’ is the most universal concept, this cannot mean that it is the one which is clearest or that it needs no further discussion. It is rather the darkest of all.

The involvement of for-profit companies like Lumen in the production and distribution of open educational resources remains controversial, since they oftentimes wind up charging students for content that is supposed to be free. Advocates for OER also sometimes worry about whether companies will capture and control student data.

For OER to truly scale

Enhancing OER to Improve Learning

A faculty resource for adopting, using and re-purposing openly licensed educational resources.

More on the Cost Trap and Inclusive Access

This week Follett joined Lumen as a 'distributor' of 'free' OER learning materials

If more students can buy course materials

Today Lumen announced a major new partnership with Follett. Follett operates more than 1,200 local campus bookstores, and they’ve made significant investments in tools, processes, and people to make it easy for faculty to review and adopt course materials.

Defining the "Open" in Open Content