While eTexts may be cheaper because they save on publishing costs, they still dip into students’ bank accounts. Open-source learning, an innovative and inevitable movement, is underway, which provides ...

Open-source books, or free and freely distributed texts, are a welcome challenge to the textbook publishing business model. With higher prices and wider availability of e-books, students are looking ...

Annual textbook costs average $1,200 while open-source is often free. By MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press Feb 12, 2016 Feb 12, 2016 0 ...

Menendez is a history major at UCSD, and lives in La Jolla.Textbooks are a major burden on college students due to their increasing cost. Since 1977, the price of textbooks has gone up by more than… ...

It’s operating through funding by the Lily Endowment. The free course materials include open-source textbooks and library e-books. Lori Watson teaches chemistry at Earlham College in Richmond.

If open source textbooks get adopted widely, students could complete their college majors without ever having to spend money on textbooks, saving thousands of dollars over the course of their time ...

The OpenStax library contains nearly 40 free open source textbooks for college and Advanced Placement classes. When partisan political agreement seems a thing of the past, consider that both the Obama ...

GLENVILLE — An associate professor of English at Glenville State College has been featured in a free, open-source textbook for composition courses that has been nearly 10 years in the making.

To prepare, now is the time to scale up the creation and use of free digital textbooks for post-secondary students, in order to adjust higher education to our new COVID-19 reality. National Post ...

WASHINGTON, N.C. (WNCT) -Many college students are familiar with the heavy price tag textbooks can come with. That’s why many teachers at Beaufort County Community College recently started us… ...

The open source ereader—powered by an ARM Cortex M4 processor—will also include a headphone jack for listening to audio books, a dedicated flash chip for storing language files with specific ...

Open-source textbooks have emerged as a cost-effective solution for cash-strapped college students. They can download the material free or print copies for a nominal price.