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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Three new free textbooks have been added to the inventory within Rice University's OpenStax College collection. This set of open educational resources now includes new volumes on algebra and ...

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 ...

OpenStax, which provides free, peer-reviewed undergraduate textbooks and supporting materials for colleges and universities, has set its sights on K-12 education for the first time. The non-profit ...

Many colleges are resuming classes online amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but the transition from in-person courses to online isn’t an easy one for many students and faculty. One Rice University-based ...