University Distinguished Professor Matt Kohn from the Department of Geosciences received the Most Promising New Textbook award for his textbook “Petrology and Plate Tectonics,” written in ...

But one University of Wisconsin-Madison organization — the library’s Open Education Resources — is working to ease access for ...

ATHENS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio University will offer instructors $1,000 to lower textbook costs for students. This month, Ohio University Libraries debuted its Zero Cost Textbook program, a new training ...

Every college graduate knows about the games schools and textbook publishers play when it comes to revenue. The average textbook company comes out with a new version of each of their books every few ...

John R. Jefferson, professor of chemistry at Luther College, authored "Introduction to Biophysical Chemistry: An ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students can spend hundreds of dollars on books. Tuition isn't the only higher education expense that makes paying for college ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has revised a textbook for a required fitness course that called cancer “a disease of choice” and included a theory asserting Holocaust ...

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