Reframing Access from Transaction to System Design
For decades, institutions have treated course materials as a peripheral component of the academic experience, necessary but operationally distinct from the core
Student Outcomes
52% of Top 1,000 Institutions Are Using Course Materials Access Programs
Half of the Top 1,000 Institutions, by Headcount, are Using Course Materials Access Programs
Open Letter to the Department of Education
Below is an open letter that was sent to Dr. Miguel Cardona, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, regarding the proposed language changes to Cash
Addressing Retention Theory Through Equitable Access
If you have any familiarity with higher education, you have some idea of luminary theorists Vincent Tinto and Alexander Astin. Tinto’s groundbreaking research
What If We Started Over?
Rashad Nelms, Associate Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Strategy and Innovation at Indiana University Bloomington recently posted a
Course Materials Interventions: Supporting Intellectual Egalitarianism
If you have ever seen/heard me present, one of the most important parts of my presentation is my favorite
Inclusive Access and OER Can Coexist
Over the last five years, the growth of Inclusive Access (IA) and Open Educational Resources (OER) has sparked wild discourse within course materials and
Learning Theory and Digital
John Dewey, an American educational theorist, advanced the learning-by-doing principle in the early 1900s. Dewey’s theoretical perspective has been furthered
Print vs. Digital
The growth of Inclusive and Equitable Access has played an important role in driving down course materials costs and increasing access to course materials.
VitalSource Acquires Akademos
The higher education course materials landscape has largely remained unchanged over the last several decades. However, there has been a seismic shift in the