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Commissioned by The 20 Million Minds Foundation, the report and infographic provide analysis of California's online education efforts and make recommendations to increase student access and success PASADENA, Calif., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report commissioned by The 20 Million Minds Foundation (20MM), authored by Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein of MindWires Consulting, The Right to Educational Access: Using Online Education to Address Bottleneck Courses in...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Chegg, the student hub, today announced it has entered into a partnership with OpenStax College and the 20 Million Minds Foundation that will represent a milestone in the growing adoption of open source eTextbooks. The adoption of digital texts is accelerating as more higher education opportunities sprout online and at the same time, university and college institutions are being pressed to find new opportunities for lowering the cost...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Leaders in online education initiatives will convene at UCLA on January 8, 2013, to bring awareness and discuss key issues regarding the potential for online education to lower costs and improve higher education in California. The conference is sponsored by the 20 Million Minds Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to lowering the cost of higher education. Themed "Rebooting Higher Education: Leveraging Innovations in Online...
VISALIA, Calif., Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- California Community College faculty, administrators, a team of professionals and the 20 Million Minds Foundation (20MM) are meeting this weekend to transform textbook production and costs, a project aimed to save students millions of dollars and revolutionize the way educational materials are compiled and delivered. West Hills Community College District formed the Central California Community Colleges Committed to Change, aka...
Non-profit, 20 Million Minds Foundation, attacked in its fight for free textbooks for college students SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released a "knee-jerk" national press release announcing in panicky fashion their challenge to the notion that historic college textbook legislation unanimously passed by the California State Senate and signed by Governor Jerry Brown could indeed be provided to...
Jerry Brown Unlocks the Nation's Digital Future through Open Source Textbook Innovation SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Governor Jerry Brown signed a monumental set of bills that create the nation's first free online textbook library, an effort aimed at alleviating the burden of rising costs to students attending California's public postsecondary institutions. California is now set to become the nation's first state to create a digital textbook...
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In light of pending legislation, the 20 Million Minds Foundation has released an explanatory infographic outlining the monumental effect open-source textbooks will have for California and the nation's college students under California Senate Bills 1052 and 1053 if signed by Governor Jerry Brown. Infographic: http://20mm.org/infographic-open-source-impact.html The bills will create free open-source college textbooks for...
Sample survey of 600 upcoming fall courses across California State Universities finds the campus bookstore significantly more expensive than alternatives available through third parties online SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the 20 Million Minds Foundation released a statistical survey that revealed that the cost differential between standard campus bookstores and online alternatives in most cases is over 25 percent costing students over $2 million...
New Social Highlighter Tool Announced SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 20 Million Minds Foundation (20MM) and Highlighter.com, dedicated to reducing the cost of textbooks while increasing student engagement in the classroom, have partnered to produce a book for the upcoming Fall term. Introduction to Sociology, the first student-faculty interactive textbook enhances student learning, allows students to highlight, annotate, comment, share and save...
Free and Open Physics and Sociology Textbooks downloaded 10,000 times since June SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Pioneers in the development and dissemination of high-quality Open Educational Resources (OER) textbooks for college students, the 20 Million Minds Foundation (20MM), announced today that their first two open textbooks published under the OpenStax College moniker will save students over $1 million this fall alone. The two titles, College...
