ProQuest has announced that as part of its continuing commitment to support Open Educational Resources (OER), it is making OER content more discoverable and visible to instructors through SIPX and Summon. OpenSUNY OER textbooks are now indexed and available in Summon, and soon the full catalogue of OpenStax OER content will be as well. As a result, improved visibility of these open resources in campus Learning Management System environments will make adoption easier for instructors.
Additionally, through these partnerships, ProQuest, OpenStax and OpenSUNY are introducing more options to help reduce course materials costs for students. OpenStax is a non-profit organisation dedicated to developing student access to quality learning materials.
A growing leader in digital content and online education, ProQuest SIPX provides proven cost-saving and scalable technology to manage and share course materials under the SIPX® and ProQuest® brands. Developed from a Stanford University research project, the system draws together open access and OER materials, comprehensive publisher content and library holdings into an intuitive interface that allows faculty or support staff to set up and share course readings with students.
Through SIPX, course materials become cost-efficient, easy and transparent, with individual user contexts that permit free or reduced-cost access based on factors like library subscription affiliations or a student's geography. The solution supports seamless integrations with Learning Management Systems, library course reserves services, bookstores and copyshops, coursepacks, distance education, continuing studies and global open online courses/MOOCs. Analytics created for instructors and libraries cover student engagement and campus course material needs, as well as new opportunities for sharing school- and instructor-owned content.
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