Hi Grant, I haven’t heard from TH directly about this but have been following this development (along with others, like OpenNow and Knewton). Lots of people seeking to engage in #openwrapping wherein they add services/functions on top of OER. If you can’t beat ‘em, co-opt ‘em, I guess. I didn’t see anything in the TH publishing terms/agreement about open licensing—only language about the worldwide rights of TH to any instructor-created content. So really just a self-publishing platform, which I suppose one could use Pressbooks.com for, even if you did not want to publish under an open license. As Phil notes, TH Marketplace is also unknown and new and does not have the reputation, visibility, and endorsement that, for example, the open.bccampus.ca repository does. Seems like a bit of a scheme to encourage vanity publishing as a way of generating content for free for TH while tying authoring faculty into their product ecosystem (or perhaps there is real value that I am missing, beyond the functionality of their interface?). Separately, it amuses me that this company markets itself with the tag line “Make every lecture like a TED talk” (which to me reveals little understanding of pedagogy). Cheers, Rajiv On 2018-01-09, 3:31 PM, "Bcoewg on behalf of Grant Potter" <bcoewg-bounces(a)mail.bccampus.ca on behalf of Grant.Potter(a)unbc.ca> wrote: During the last couple conversations with faculty regarding OER development TopHat Marketplace has come up. They ask me to clarify the pros/cons of publishing at https://opentextbc.ca/ versus https://tophat.com/textbook/ This topic has come up recently on Feldstein’s blog https://mfeldstein.com/top-hat-marketplace-care/ Looks like they are approaching their free opentextbook platform as a value-added for their student-response system and realtime testing elements. https://tophat.com/legal/publishing-contribution-agreement/ Wondering if anyone else has been experiencing this? Cheers ~ Grant ------------------- Grant Potter UNBC Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Technology http://unbc.ca/ctlt http://twitter.com/unbc_ctlt _______________________________________________ Bcoewg mailing list Bcoewg(a)mail.bccampus.ca http://lists.bccampus.ca/mailman/listinfo/bcoewg