What Happened to Amazon Inspire, the Tech Giant’s Education Marketplace? | EdSurge News (2017)

"Last summer the world’s largest online retailer launched Amazon Inspire, touting it as a hub for educators to exchange lesson plans and other Open Education Resources. But a year later, the site remains in limited, invitation-only beta. Some wonder when it will be open to the wider education community (and what the company’s broader education strategy is).

The ambitious project stumbled just one day after it launched, when some educators complained that their teaching materials had been posted by other users without permission. As a story in The New York Times noted at the time, Amazon Inspire appeared to have opened without a system in place to review whether users were violating copyright when they uploaded materials—systems that are standard on YouTube and other collections of...

"Last summer the world’s largest online retailer launched Amazon Inspire, touting it as a hub for educators to exchange lesson plans and other Open Education Resources. But a year later, the site remains in limited, invitation-only beta. Some wonder when it will be open to the wider education community (and what the company’s broader education strategy is).

The ambitious project stumbled just one day after it launched, when some educators complained that their teaching materials had been posted by other users without permission. As a story in The New York Times noted at the time, Amazon Inspire appeared to have opened without a system in place to review whether users were violating copyright when they uploaded materials—systems that are standard on YouTube and other collections of user-generated content...