October 28, 2020
This April piece by COPIM's Samuel Moore has aged pretty well: If things were tough already for small, not-for-profit, and university press publishers, they are going to get worse during the downturn. Higher education is predicted to be badly hit by the crisis and...
October 20, 2020
Jonathan Gray, announcing his new collection, co-edited with Martin Eve: MIT Press have recently published a new book on Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access edited by Martin Eve and myself. [...] My...
October 7, 2020
From the press release on the just-released SPARC Europe report copyright and licensing policy [pdf]: Clear from this study: the majority of publishers have yet to embark on a more OA friendly policy journey, though some are making preparations. “If these publishers...
October 7, 2020
A deeply cynical Forbes piece by Kaplan's Brandon Busteed: The current narrative about the edtech industry is that it’s driven by innovative disrupters from outside of education – the proverbial Silicon Valley story of tech entrepreneurs finding solutions to all our...
September 30, 2020
Techcrunch: It’s been a big year for online learning companies — and it sounds like Thinkific is no exception. The Vancouver-based startup is announcing that it has raised $22 million in new funding. Thinkific is different from businesses such as MasterClass (which...
September 30, 2020
From an NSF-funded, cross-university campaign to oil the gears of faculty profiteering: In order to gain broad support for the recognition of [Innovation & Entrepreneurship] within [Promotion and Tenure] guidelines and processes, it is critical that I&E...
