Open educational resources publisher OpenStax plans to develop dozens of new free textbook titles -- doubling its current catalog of 42 textbooks. OpenStax has so far secured $12.5 million in grants ...

Pricey college textbooks add hundreds of dollars to hefty higher education costs each semester. But a Rice University initiative, now in its fifth year, is chipping away at those expenses – and its ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Grand Rapids Community College officials say a 2016 partnership with an educational group to lower textbook costs is saving students millions of dollars. This past academic year, ...

Nearly all of the courses for students earning an Associate of Arts degree in business will soon be covered by a free OpenStax textbook, thanks to a series of six new introductory business textbooks ...

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Rice University’s open-education platform Connexions has unveiled a bold plan to provide free online publisher-quality textbooks for five of the country’s most-attended college courses. The OpenStax ...

High-quality, openly licensed textbooks from OpenStax will now be available to students in the United Kingdom, thanks to a partnership between the Rice University-based nonprofit and The Open ...

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 ...