Content, Curriculum, and Open Resources

Before "edtech" existed, education's largest commercial business was content: textbooks, workbooks and teacher guides from a handful of publishers. That business has been rebuilt twice in fifteen years, first by the shift from print to digital access, then by a public-good counter-movement of open resources and high-quality open curricula. Generative AI adds a third pressure: content can be produced almost for free, so value moves to coherence, alignment, evidence and the platform that delivers it.