Course Design Questions Textbooks 
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2019
Perched in lime green desk chairs, dozens of employees of OpenStax work here to transform physics, calculus and psychology materials into digital textbooks that students can study at no cost. Yet the nonprofit is also developing its own software designed to undercut the courseware industry, charging just $10 per student.
Faculty Focus
MAY 15, 2025
This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Tessa Wolf strengthened our commitment to inclusive course design.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 19, 2016
.—$20,000 dollars of student debt, 14 months, one thesis, two internships, $1,500 dollars worth of textbooks, and countless sleepless nights later and I finally earned those two little letters following my name. Open Textbooks. To be clear, I didn’t just stumble upon it either. case studies and articles I had purchased over the years).
Edsurge
JANUARY 13, 2017
In the early days of "course cartridges”—an LMS feature that allowed instructors to plug published content right into their courses—online courses were essentially digitized versions of static (textbook) content. A few trees were saved, but courses weren’t any smarter. Is that adaptive? A good experience?
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 25, 2022
I have completed online graduate courses and a professional certificate that used a combination of instructor-created content, freely-accessible websites and videos, and creative-commons-licensed OERs. I appreciated not having to purchase textbooks in addition to paying tuition and fees. Review the material.
Edsurge
AUGUST 16, 2018
Plus, it sounded a lot like a MOOC (short for “massive open online courses”)—free courses designed for thousands of students that were all the rage a few years ago, but which today are seen as having fallen far short of the hype. Whether we’re right or not is one question, but a very important one is, ‘What’s going to work?’
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
This drastic class redesign demanded that I ask myself some big questions: what content was required, what elements of learning could students control and what traditional and new measures I could use to gauge progress? Almost every question led to another. Seven years ago, that first course redesign was a big shift for me.
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