OpenStax Astronomy reaches over 1 million students
Lindsay Josephs
OpenStax, the open textbook publisher based at nonprofit Rice University, is pleased to announce that its free, openly licensed introductory textbook, Astronomy 2e, has now been used by more than 1.1 million students. The text is also the first in OpenStax’s library of 68 titles to become the most frequently used textbook in its field.
Written by senior authors Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, and Sidney Wolff, with the support and assistance of dozens of astronomers and astronomy educators, Astronomy 2e has been used by more than 2,000 instructors in over 11,600 courses at universities, colleges, and high schools across the world. In the process, students have saved more than $84 million in astronomy textbook costs at a time when the rising cost of a college education poses significant difficulties for many students.
OpenStax estimates that approximately 250,000 to 300,000 higher education students take an introductory (non-majors) astronomy course each year and that roughly a third use the free OpenStax textbook. The book is also widely used in high schools and by independent learners. Thanks to the support of many foundations and donors, OpenStax is able to offer textbooks that are written, edited, and designed to the highest standards and that compete effectively with commercial textbooks costing hundreds of dollars.
To learn more, read our full announcement here.
To begin using OpenStax's free, online, openly licensed astronomy textbook in your course, click here.
Amy Hofer
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