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 ...

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 ...

Rice University-based nonprofit OpenStax, which has already provided free textbooks to hundreds of thousands of college students, have announced a $9 million effort to develop free, digital textbooks ...

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 ...

This year, 56 percent of all colleges and universities in the United States are using free textbooks from OpenStax in at least one course. That equates to 5,900-plus institutions and nearly 3 million ...

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 ...

The Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation partially funds a non-profit called OpenStax, which aims to create and provide free digital textbooks to college students at various universities. What's False ...

Digital textbooks were supposed to revolutionize and equalize education. By enabling access to uploaded, updated materials to students around the world, schools and families alike could be spared at ...

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 ...