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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

OpenStax, the Rice University-backed publisher, is partnering with textbook distributor NACSCORP to get its free textbooks into the hands of more students. The two organizations will offer faculty ...

HOUSTON, Jan. 4, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Blending Education, LLC today announced a partnership with OpenStax that will enhance and personalize the learning experience for students through microlearning ...

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 ...