Open education resources provider OpenStax has partnered with Microsoft to integrate its digital library of 80 openly licensed titles into Microsoft Learning Zone, an on-device AI tool for generating ...

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 ...

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 ...

OpenStax College, the Rice University-based publisher of free, peer-reviewed textbooks, has partnered with the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Press to produce a new introductory microbiology ...

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 ...

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 ...

When we think about the distribution industry being disrupted, we tend to think about music and movies, whose physical media and vast shipment infrastructure have been rendered mostly obsolete over ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...