A group led by OpenStax, an edtech nonprofit based at Houston’s Rice University that publishes peer-reviewed materials online, received $1.13 million from the U.S. Education Department to…

Auburn University’s program to help students improve their writing skills announced in October a new online hub that allows students and instructors to access learning materials created…

Using federal pandemic relief funding last year, Pennsylvania created a new statewide grant program to help schools create or implement open educational resources, with the first two…

The National Science Foundation approved $2 million in funding for a team of researchers from the University of Nebraska, Cornell and the University of Maine to investigate…

California lawmakers in June approved a new budget that dedicates $115 million dedicated to open educational resources. The funding promotes programs in which students do not have…

The West Virginia Higher Education Commission estimated this month that an OER pilot program that launched in the spring with 34 faculty across the state’s public universities…

At the University of Arkansas, an instructional designer and librarian are working with faculty to shift from a traditional textbook approach in courses to open educational resources.…

Blackboard in July announced a “Center for Advancing Learning” to produce analysis and target top education issues, its director told EdScoop. The center plans first to support…

HolonIQ lists 32 edtech “unicorns” as of November, which raised more than $21 billion in funding over the past decade. Class, which offers tools to make Zoom…

As the edtech sector booms, more companies are going public. Instructure, the company that runs the popular LMS Canvas, raised about $250 million in its July initial…