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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

HOUSTON -- (May 2, 2013) -- Rice University-based publisher OpenStax College today announced plans to more than double the number of titles in its catalog of free, online textbooks by 2015, thanks to ...

The Rice University-based free textbook publisher is the latest in the industry to pair its own course content with an online learning platform. OpenStax, the free textbook publisher based at Rice ...