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""Z Degree" - "z" for zero textbook cost - to ease the pain of soaring textbook costs for college students."

We support the creation, sharing, and proliferation of effective, affordable, and quality textbook content. We embrace disruptive technologes, open education resources and new higher education models that bring together for-profit, nonprofit, and government entities.

An open textbook (via @Saylor) Educational Psychology - teaching for learning

"Project Kaleidoscope is implementing a set of fully open general education courses across eight colleges serving predominantly at-risk students. The project will dramatically reduce textbook costs and allow collaborative improvement of course design to improve student success."

"Lumen helps educational institutions reduce textbook costs and improve student success using open educational resources and learning analytics."

"MyOpenMath runs on the free, open source, IMathAS platform, providing free hosted use of this platform in support of free, open textbooks. The intent is to provide classroom use of the platform, without any required cost to students, for schools wanting a managed install of the IMathAS platform, and to provide students self-study opportunities."