Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Lehigh Valley mathematics professor helps create open-educational resources - Sara Karnish, Penn State University

Larry Musolino, assistant teaching professor, mathematics, has worked on several textbooks created by OpenStax, a leading supplier of open-educational resources. OpenStax’s assets are now used by approximately 7 million students in more than 150 countries. OpenStax has estimated that over 70% of higher education institutions in the U.S. have adopted its textbooks; using its texts has saved students more than $2.9 billion since 2012. In 2022, Musolino authored two chapters on statistics topics in the OpenStax “Principles of Finance” book. He is in the process of editing and revising both the existing "Introductory Statistics and Business Statistics" textbooks.