You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. OpenStax, which launched earlier this year, is one of several publishers trying to combat the ...

Were OpenStax expected to produce such a return on investment, its textbooks would prove little different from traditional for-profit publishers. Consider, as a counterpoint, Flat World, which began ...

OpenStax, a nonprofit based at Rice University that publishes free online peer-reviewed textbooks, reports that more than two million students at U.S. colleges used at least one of its textbooks ...

Florida State University Libraries will expand its efforts to increase awareness for the textbook affordability movement and promote the adoption of open educational resources (OER) through a new ...

Founder Rich Baraniuk in the OpenStax office. HOUSTON — On the third floor of a bank building near Rice University, the future of higher education is being written. Or at least, edited. Perched in ...

Rice University’s OpenStax project has announced that on Sept. 12, it will release the complete digital version of Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition, with unlimited free access online to students and ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Rice University $90 million to build the country’s largest education research hub, aiming to advance teachers’ knowledge of student learning strategies ...

OpenStax is celebrating its 25th anniversary as 2024 comes to a close. The open educational resources (OER) initiative from Rice University has served almost 37 million students in 153 countries and ...

If ramen noodle sales spike at the start of every semester, here’s one possible reason: textbooks can cost as much as a class itself; materials for an introductory physics course can easily top $300.

Textbooks are incredibly expensive (not to mention cumbersome and heavy in dead tree format). Smart students can pick up free digital textbooks from several sources, including one we haven't mentioned ...