panOpen @panopen

Startup, New York, NY – 1/10/2017 employees

panOpen uses faculty curated open source content and combines it with the best learning technology available in a seamless and easy-to-use learning platform. Instead of students spending hundreds of dollars on textbooks, they pay a small platform fee for access to high quality content and technologically-rich open source courseware and tools, providing a foundation for lower cost materials and improved learning outcomes.

Institutions are under enormous pressure to reduce costs to students. Not least of these costs are textbooks and more than 60% of students aren’t buying them. When students forgo textbooks, their academic performance suffers and fewer graduate. The institutions also suffer, losing credibility and their biggest source of revenue, tuition. In this $18b industry, faculty and administrators are scrambling for viable alternatives to publisher products.