Market Games Partners with OpenStax to Reduce Student Costs for Intro to Business Courses
As of August 20, Market Games is officially a technology partner of OpenStax, an initiative by Rice University dedicated to improving educational access with open educational resources (OER).
This partnership is a huge milestone for our journey of reimagining the business textbook.
With our specialty in building gamified learning experiences and OpenStax’s high quality content, we could deliver an active and collaborative learning tool that supports professors while being affordable, realistic and engaging for students in introductory business courses.
OpenStax develops openly licensed college textbooks that learners and educators can access, distribute and modify for free. These textbooks are peer-reviewed, regularly updated, and meet the scope and sequence requirements for their intended courses. Further, their intuitive LMS integration and textbook-supporting test banks are also valuable additions that give educators the assistance they need.
More than 56% of degree-granting institutions in the United States have adopted OpenStax textbooks, and the nonprofit organization has saved $835 million for students since 2012.
As an OpenStax Ally, we are able to integrate their textbook into our Intro to Business Game.
OpenStax’s content enables Market Games to add product features that are critical to providing learners and instructors with an effective and scalable “all-in-one” learning solution for core business classrooms.
For students, having such a tool can significantly reduce the cost of course materials since students will not need to pay for multiple separate coursewares and text in order to sustain their learning throughout the academic term.
The updates to the Intro to Business Game will give instructors the power to do more with less. They will have access to many features (textbook content, a team project, peer feedback tool, assessment tool) that are helpful to driving engagement and learning outcomes in a larger classroom.
"There's no better time for us to be partnering with OpenStax. Many Intro to Business professors that I have spoken to are very excited about this content integration into the game," said Torsor Kotee, Founder and CEO of Market Games. "Undergraduate Business programs are working harder than ever to lower student costs while developing innovative curricula that better prepares students for success. We are certainly best positioned to assist with this priority so we want to do whatever we can to help."
With OpenStax’s decision to partner with Market Games, we can work together to expand the use of OER in core business education through fun and unique learning experiences that promote higher order thinking skills.
“We are excited to welcome Market Games as an OpenStax Ally, ” said Daniel Williamson, Managing Director of OpenStax. “OpenStax business users will now have even more options for engaging digital tools with Market Games’ unique offerings that help students build critical thinking and collaboration skills they can apply in a variety of industries.”
Our vision is to help programs scale access and students' success.
We are excited to join forces with OpenStax to take a step closer to that shared vision and make quality business education more affordable, realistic and engaging!
About Market Games and OpenStax
Market Games is gamifying the textbook experience to help business educators reduce the cost of course materials and scale their students’ success. We build active and collaborative digital tools to make learning more engaging, effective, and affordable. For more information, visit www.marketgames.io
OpenStax is a Rice University initiative that is committed to improving access to quality education. The nonprofit organization provides free college and AP textbooks, as well as low-cost, personalized courseware that helps students learn. For more information, visit www.openstax.org