If ramen noodle sales spike at the start of every semester, here’s one possible reason: textbooks can cost as much as a class itself; materials for an introductory physics course can easily top $300.

AcademicPub, an automated coursepack service, is launching a line of “Intro Books,” low cost textbooks designed for introductory seminars for basic college courses. The Intro Books line will launch ...

This interview is part of our “Econ Extra Credit” project, where we read an introductory economics textbook provided by the nonprofit Core-Econ together with our listeners. When you think of taking an ...

I underline and highlight as I read and scribble copious notes in the margins of books (or sometimes, particularly in a book that I used for teaching, on a color-coded series of sticky notes that ...

Many students say they go without textbooks, even when they're required. College students in five of the most-attended courses in U.S. higher education soon will have free peer-reviewed textbooks ...

Students are taking the battle against high-priced textbooks into their own hands. This week, 11 University of Cincinnati seniors in the psychology program presented at an Educause event a comparison ...

In the textbook used by many Florida higher education students for the Introduction to Sociology course last semester, the opening lines on the chapter titled 'Race and Ethnicity' hit close to home.