Thanks Rajiv - appreciate you insights and thoughts. This is the direction I gently take
my conversations with faculty when TH Marketplace comes up. I think the frequency of TH
being mentioned in my recent conversations may be a product of targeted marketing by TH at
my institution. I lay out the value-added open.bccampus.ca<http://open.bccampus.ca>
provides in terms of visibility, promotion, and recognition. I think the only sticking
point becomes the CC-BY license requirement … which I personally think is the best option,
but often breeds the, “so, other people can re-package this resource I am building to make
money?” hesitations. I often encounter a willingness to openly share with attribution
required, but significant reluctance drop an NC clause.
Cheers ~ Grant
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Grant Potter
UNBC Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
http://unbc.ca/ctlt
http://twitter.com/unbc_ctlt
On Jan 11, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Rajiv Jhangiani
<rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca<mailto:rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca>> wrote:
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<http://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<http://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@mail.bccampus.ca<mailto:bcoewg-bounces@mail.bccampus.ca> on
behalf of Grant.Potter@unbc.ca<mailto:Grant.Potter@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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