9:46 a.m.
Hi Grant,
I haven’t heard from TH directly about this but have been following this development
(along with others, like OpenNow and Knewton). Lots of people seeking to engage in
#openwrapping wherein they add services/functions on top of OER. If you can’t beat ‘em,
co-opt ‘em, I guess.
I didn’t see anything in the TH publishing terms/agreement about open licensing—only
language about the worldwide rights of TH to any instructor-created content. So really
just a self-publishing platform, which I suppose one could use Pressbooks.com for, even if
you did not want to publish under an open license. As Phil notes, TH Marketplace is also
unknown and new and does not have the reputation, visibility, and endorsement that, for
example, the open.bccampus.ca repository does. Seems like a bit of a scheme to encourage
vanity publishing as a way of generating content for free for TH while tying authoring
faculty into their product ecosystem (or perhaps there is real value that I am missing,
beyond the functionality of their interface?).
Separately, it amuses me that this company markets itself with the tag line “Make every
lecture like a TED talk” (which to me reveals little understanding of pedagogy).
Cheers,
Rajiv
On 2018-01-09, 3:31 PM, "Bcoewg on behalf of Grant Potter"
<bcoewg-bounces(a)mail.bccampus.ca on behalf of Grant.Potter(a)unbc.ca> wrote:
During the last couple conversations with faculty regarding OER development TopHat
Marketplace has come up. They ask me to clarify the pros/cons of publishing at
https://opentextbc.ca/ versus https://tophat.com/textbook/
This topic has come up recently on Feldstein’s blog
https://mfeldstein.com/top-hat-marketplace-care/
Looks like they are approaching their free opentextbook platform as a value-added for
their student-response system and realtime testing elements.
https://tophat.com/legal/publishing-contribution-agreement/
Wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this?
Cheers ~ Grant
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Grant Potter
UNBC Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
http://unbc.ca/ctlt
http://twitter.com/unbc_ctlt
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