[Open-education] [OER-advocacy] Amazon Inspire

Mon Jun 27 14:47:01 UTC 2016

hi all

NEW York Times reports:

Just ahead of the back-to-school season, Amazon is making a major foray into the education technology market for primary and secondary schools, a territory that Apple, Google and Microsoft have heavily staked out.

On Monday morning, Amazon said that it would introduce an online marketplace with tens of thousands of free lesson plans, worksheets and other instructional materials for teachers in late August or early September.

Called Amazon Inspire, the education site has features that may seem quite familiar to frequent Amazon shoppers. Search bar at the top of the page? Check. User reviews? Check. Star ratings for each product? Check.

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Amazon is joining other tech industry giants in an enormous push to expand the use of technology in the public schools.

From: Layla Bonnot 
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 2:46 PM
To: OER-advocacy-coalition at googlegroups.com 
Subject: [OER-advocacy] Amazon Inspire

The public launch was this morning at ISTE http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/06/28/technology/amazon-unveils-online-education-service-for-teachers.html

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      Layla Bonnot

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