Rice University
For Marketing And Distribution Of Open Textbooks
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Amount$450,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/16/2015
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Term36 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
Rice University launched OpenStax College in 2012 to develop and disseminate a library of high-quality, openly licensed textbooks for the 25 most popular college courses in the United States. The college will launch a national marketing campaign designed to raise awareness of the availability of high-quality OER and drive adoption of its suite of openly licensed textbooks. This project will promote greater mainstream adoption of open textbooks in higher education.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.rice.edu
Address
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005
Houston, TX 77005
Grants to this Grantee
for developing a transdisciplinary research team to improve student learning with OER
OpenStax is establishing the Learning in Education Research Network at Rice University, a first-of-its-kind scientific and educational endeavor to study and harness the complex factors that propel human learning. With this new partnership, the network expects to be able to use OER to radically advance the learning sciences and to foster the development and validation of truly personalized educational approaches that will help all learners reach their full intellectual potential. This approach will deepen connections between research and practice, specifically studies that can support and demonstrate the effective use of OER.
for an international research study to measure students’ social and emotional skills
The Houston Education Research Consortium is a partnership between Rice University and Houston-area school districts that produces research to inform decision making. The group will represent the United States in an international survey coordinated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to measure students’ skills at ages 10 and 15. The Study on Social and Emotional Skills will demonstrate the feasibility of producing valid, reliable, and comparable information on such skills across countries and settings; additionally, it will provide analyses that can improve education and support services.
