Just in time for its 10-year anniversary, the Open Textbook Library's collection of open education resources has surpassed 1,000 titles. Launched in 2012, the Library is an online catalog of openly ...

Academic libraries have long advocated for open educational resources (OERs)—openly licensed materials for learning and research—at colleges and universities. Pioneers like University of Massachusetts ...

College student Caitlin Ryen works two jobs to support herself and pay tuition at South Florida Community College. When a new semester rolls around, that usually means choosing which textbooks to buy, ...

For years, people have complained about the cost of college textbooks. And science textbooks are some of the most expensive. The list prices for hardcover versions from sellers like Amazon are ...

In four years of college, the average student nationally is asked to spend $4800 on textbooks. What if those costs were eliminated? Research from a trio of BYU professors, which is referred to as the ...

Kalamazoo, Mich.—Western Michigan University Libraries is thrilled to announce the publication of two new open textbooks by Western faculty funded by Open Educational Resources Creation Grants. These ...

Danita Armstrong started community college so that she could compete for higher-paying jobs, but the former bus driver and mother of five found herself with a $1,300 textbook bill last fall. Ms.

As the price of college textbooks continues to increase, more students are opting to skip the books even if their grades suffer, a survey conducted by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group has found ...

Dynamic Books, a publishing platform and line of customizable digital textbooks from Macmillan, announced an agreement with College Open Textbooks to identify quality public domain or open licensed ...

A federal higher education open textbook pilot program is kicking off after a public-comment period that ended in April. The U.S. Department of Education recently published details about how to apply ...

Editor’s note: Verne Kopytoff is a technology journalist who lives the the Bay area. A college textbook can cost a staggering $200. Over four years of study, students can easily spend thousands of ...

Every textbook, regardless of grade level or subject matter, is the final authority in the classroom. Every textbook is a political document. This is its strength and its weakness. Authority gives ...