Rice University
To Create Twenty Free Community College Textbooks
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Amount$1,650,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2010
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Term18.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
We propose a new grant to the Connexions project at Rice University to launch the Community College Access Project. This large-scale effort, cofunded by the Michelson Family Foundation and the Maxfield Foundation, will seed complete market-quality open textbooks for the twenty community college courses in highest demand. Assuming a 10 percent market penetration within five years of project completion, community college students in the United States will save more than $90 million per year. Given this market penetration, approximately 1 million students per year will experience these savings. In addition, this collection of fundamental content will be reused and repurposed to help launch new open courses by other grantees, including Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.rice.edu
Address
6100 Main Street, MS-16, Houston, TX, 77005-1892, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for support of OpenStax
Building upon 25 years as the world’s leading publisher of open educational resources (OER), OpenStax advances equitable access to learning materials, fosters deeper engagement among students, and contributes to research on enhancing educational outcomes using OER. This grant supports the OpenStax AmazEd initiative to deepen their library with corequisite and skill-based content; to support educators and students through an equity-centered platform with interactive, AI-supported experiences; and to enable research to understand student motivation, engagement, and persistence. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
for support of OpenStax
Building upon 25 years as the world’s leading publisher of open education resources (OER), OpenStax, an educational initiative of Rice University, advances equitable access to learning materials, fosters deeper engagement among students, and contributes to research on enhancing educational outcomes using OER. This grant supports the OpenStax AmazEd initiative to deepen their library with corequisite and skill-based content; to support educators and students through an equity-centered platform with interactive, AI-supported experiences; and to enable research to understand student motivation, engagement, and persistence. (Substrategy: Content, Tools, and Services)
for building the field for partnership research
The National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships at Rice University is a professional learning community supporting collaboration among researchers and practitioners working in education. The group will work with Stanford University; the University of Colorado, Boulder; and the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice to build capacity in the field for partnership research. The goal is to make educational research more useful and impactful and ultimately to support equitable outcomes in education. (Strategy: K-12 Teaching and Learning)
