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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

There are references to in-group conversations that don't make a lot of sense out of context (except, I guess, to say there's a history here), but Matt Crosslin's core point seems reasonable: "it seems that Course Hero is working on getting access to conferences, school servers, and circles of respect that they didn't have in the past. But the questions still remains… for what purpose?" It seems to me that they're probably wanting to provide authors who work outside academia access to markets inside academia. Bundling this commercial content with OER probably feels like a pretty good way to do it.

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