OpenStax, the free textbook publisher based at Rice University, is expanding beyond books. The publisher on Monday launched OpenStax Tutor Beta, an online learning platform. Initially available in ...

The Rice University non-profit that has released almost two-dozen free textbooks into academia is beta-testing a new personalized learning system that works with its materials. OpenStax, which stated ...

An education technology non-profit at Rice University put out a new tool last week that uses data from online learning software to help students review the lessons they find especially tough. The ...

Abstract: Two open, online educational platforms, OpenStax Exercises and OpenStax Tutor, are working to revolutionize the way in which students learn concepts in diverse subject areas. Born and tested ...

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 ...

Inquire is an IPad app developed by Seattle-based Vulcan Inc. The next-generation college textbook will undoubtedly be an "intelligent e-textbook." But different researchers have different visions of ...