Choice, Affordability, and Accessibility: The Digital Marketplace delivers OER and more

June 15, 2010 - 10:49am | by Chinkley

Author(s)

Jack

Gunther

Project Manager

California State University, Office of the Chancellor

Jeff

Kahn

Consultant

California State University

Gerry

Hanley

Senior Director, Academic Technology Services

California State University, Office of the Chancellor

Session Information

MERLOT

Special Interest (50 minutes)

July 22, 2010 - 3:40pm

Cupertino Room

The Digital Marketplace, an innovative initiative out of the CSU's Chancellor's Office, is a comprehensive suite of technology services and business solutions designed to help educational institutions provide more choice, greater affordability and increased access to educational materials. Several of these services are designed to facilitate faculty's use of OER materials, including a federated search that is the first engine to search publisher content, library materials, and OER together. The Digital Marketplace has also partnered with an OER authoring tool provider, SoftChalk, making it easier for faculty to create their own OER materials and store them in the CSU repository, ScholarWorks. This presentation will include demos of these OER solutions now available through CSU's Digital Marketplace.