Benjamin Mis, an assistant psychology professor at Irvine Valley College, is ditching a $100 textbook and will instead assign his Introduction to Psychology students in the spring semester an open-… ...

With the average college student spending $1,207 on books and supplies for the 2013-14 school year, or $1,253 if they go to a private school, the price of textbooks is rising faster than the cost ...

In response to rising textbook prices, some academics are writing their own textbooks — for free. From an article in the Los Angeles Times: Caltech economics professor R. Preston McAfee finds it ...

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 ...

In fact, a free open source statistics textbook from 20 Million Minds Foundation, a publisher of open source textbooks, is already available on Kno. But, as it stands, ...

Open-source textbooks are catching on in post-secondary schools looking to save students money as rising textbook costs deter them from buying course materials. CNN values your feedback 1.

One problem that all college students relate to one another on is textbook prices. Each semester, we dread buying books because of the unnecessarily high costs. President Eric Kaler believes that the ...

My GVSU colleague Matt Boelkins is writing a free, open-source calculus textbook that is of a very high quality and fundamentally different than most other calculus texts in some key ways. It has ...

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.

Almost two years ago, the University of Connecticut’s Undergraduate Student Government spent $20,000 to help an open-source chemistry textbook make its way into classrooms. Finally, this fall, it will ...

Open-source textbooks. In response to rising textbook prices, some academics are writing their own textbooks — for free. From an article in the Los Angeles Times:… ...