Next year, Florida students might be able to start saving on college textbooks if the state grants a request to invest in an open-access textbook program. The textbooks could save students upward of ...
The University of Connecticut has been expanding its efforts to provide open access resources, including open source textbooks, for student use. Open source textbooks are educational resources ...
Learn how we can help you get the many benefits of open access book publishing. Open access is a publishing model that makes research freely available online for anyone to read, share and reuse.
It is unclear why it does not mention that he is also a cofounder of the Arcadia Fund, a UK-based philanthropy that promotes ...
Experts frequently cite financial pressures as a key factor contributing to student attrition, while student groups continue to criticise the often hefty prices they pay for textbooks. Buoyed by the ...
College students spend more than $1,000 on books and supplies every year, according to a recent College Board study, but a program through the North Dakota University System and UND is making those ...
As a professor stands in front of a general education Physics 101 classroom, he explains that the class’ mandatory textbook, which normally costs $250 at the Illini Union Bookstore, is an open ...
There has been no shortage of critiques of the open textbook focus at The Open Education Conference #OpenEd15 - I wasn’t at the conference but I followed the Twitter stream and participated in three ...
Roxanne Missingham works for the Australian National University. For university students, textbooks have been both a saviour and a bane. Having most of the essential readings in a single volume ...
This page outlines the different ways in which you can make your books and chapters open access as a University of Sheffield staff member or student. Monographs, edited collections and chapters can be ...
Despite growing online markets for discounted books, the average cost of college textbooks has risen four times faster than the rate of inflation over the past 10 years. That has caused 65 percent of ...