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As a general rule, I don’t believe that colleges and universities understand why students are willing to go tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt to attend them. My experience has been that individual faculty are even less likely to understand these reasons than the leaders of their institutions. Faculty want college to … Read more

Matt Crosslin has posted a thoughtful response to our RISE article from last year. An open implementation of RISE was recently published in the Journal of Open Source Software. Since Matt took the time to engage so thoughtfully, I wanted to respond in kind. (Also, it’s a breath of fresh air to write a little … Read more

Yesterday, Phil Hill wrote about OpenStax’s new method for calculating the savings students see when their faculty adopt OER. His article highlights these paragraphs from Rice University’s recent press release: Our community is creating a movement that will make a big impact on college affordability. The success of open textbooks like OpenStax have ignited competition … Read more