Using Rice’sConnexions platform, OpenStax will offer free course materials for five common introductory classes. The textbooks are open to classes anywhere and organizers believe the programs could save students $90 million in the next five years if the books capture 10 percent of the national mar...
Williamson said the open textbook model is proven: 1.5 million students are using OpenStax textbooks this academic year alone and saving $145 million. "A fiscal policy that encourages instructors and institutions to use OER and embrace the freedoms that they afford -- access never expiring, opportu...
Rice University’s Secret for Containing the Coronavirus: A Student-Run Court That Prosecutes Rule Breakers The COVID Community Court has helped enforce social distancing and wearing of masks. But some undergrads say the feeling of being watched has become another cost of the pandemic. ...
tim flowers and tony yeo, from sussex universitys school of biological sciences, have spent several years researching how crops, such as rice, could be made to grow in water that has become salty. the pair have recently begun a three-year programme, funded by the biotechnology and biological...
He wrote a number of textbooks on literature and rhetoric and biographies of Longfellow, Whittier, and Whitman. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia™ Copyright © 2022, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved....
He graduated from the Southwest Agricultural (农业) University in 1953. He came up with an idea for a Hybrid rice in the 1960s. Since then, he has devoted himself to research and to the development of new varieties. In 1973, together with other people, he succeeded in the development of...
Here, as in the otherseven makeshift classrooms, there are no learning charts on the walls, almostno textbooks, and while some children have a pen and write their sums into atattered exercise book, others resort to chalk and do their working outdirectly onto the desk. With incomes in ...
tim flowers and tony yeo, from sussex universitys school of biological sciences, have spent several years researching how crops, such as rice, could be made to grow in water that has become salty. the pair have recently begun a three-year programme, funded by the biotechnology and biological...