KQED MindShift examines how “digital curriculum–in both college and K-12–seems to be shifting from attempts to break apart comprehensive digital textbooks to meet classroom needs, to building up lessons and courseware from individual instructional chunks … Encouraging this acceleration of digital chunky content, in large part, is the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement.” The post then discusses four key factors that have “come together to fuel the rise of digital content”: price, availability, “discoverability,” and flexibility.