OpenStax, the free textbook publisher based at Rice University, is expanding beyond books. The publisher on Monday launched OpenStax Tutor Beta, an online learning platform. Initially available in ...

OpenStax, the Rice University-based provider of free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed course materials, has expanded its content library with a new computer science textbook: Introduction to Python ...

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, ...

Rice University's OpenStax open educational resources initiative has announced plans to grow its library of free textbooks from its current selection of 42 books to nearly 90 titles. The expansion is ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE: BNED), a leading provider of educational products and services solutions for higher education and K-12 institutions, today announced a ...

At his full-time job, Huzefa Kapadia spends about 60 hours a week helping Southern California high school students understand polynomials, radicals and quadratic functions. But globally, he’s more ...

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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 ...

Textbooks can be prohibitively expensive, often costing students hundreds of dollars for just a semester’s worth of books. In this dawning age of open-source materials, OpenStax CNX, from Rice ...

Textbook costs can oftentimes rival a course's tuition costs, especially for community college students. OpenStax, a nonprofit affiliated with Rice University, is focused on solving an issue burdening ...