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Higher education solutions
XanEdu empowers faculty, campus bookstores, and campus libraries to quickly create relevant, adaptable, engaging course materials that are affordable for all students.
Providing customizable and affordable solutions for your course — and your campus
Courseware / FlexEd
XanEdu FlexEd is a complete courseware solution designed to keep costs down and enhance student outcomes in any setting — in-person, hybrid, or virtual.
Through a carefully curated multi-modal approach, FlexEd builds on top-quality content, including OpenStax, to guide students through each course. This flexible, easy-to-use, and affordable learning tool works across all devices.
Learn moreFlexEd offers:
- Integration with any LMS
- Compatibility across devices
- Engaging content
- Meaningful analytics
Custom book services
With our custom book services, you’ll no longer be restricted to nationally published resources that don’t match your objectives.
Instead of adapting your course to fit existing materials, you can create custom books and lab manuals that meet your criteria.
In addition to your own materials, your custom book or lab manual can include reprinted materials from a variety of sources — articles from professional journals, popular magazines, excerpts and illustrations from books or other documents, and more.
Learn moreOur custom book services include:
- Affordable books for your students, customized for your course
- Editorial services
- Custom print books, digital e-books, or both
Campus solutions
We offer a comprehensive suite of intuitive tools, professional services, and top-quality content that boosts engagement and benefits the whole campus, from the library to the bookstore and beyond.
With our campus solutions, you can quickly create relevant, affordable, adaptable higher ed course materials in a wide variety of formats.
Learn moreOur campus solutions include:
- Bookstore services
- Library services
- Copyright clearance services
- Affordability solutions
- Support from our experienced content development specialists
Affordability solutions
XanEdu can help you create and refine a relevant, customized, affordable learning experience. Working with faculty, we develop top-tier course materials that work with your budget — and your students’ budgets.
Our open educational resources (OER) experts can help you customize OER source materials and navigate matters regarding licensing, public domain, reuse and remixing guidelines, usage parameters, and more.
Learn moreOur affordability solutions include:
- Customized OER materials
- Low-cost print materials and free digital materials
- Support from OER experts
- DIY and full-service options
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Trusted by colleges and universities nationwide
OpenStax Ally and preferred print partner since 2019
XanEdu is proud to be the preferred print, distribution, and customization partner for OpenStax, a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University.
OpenStax aims to make learning affordable by offering dozens of free, peer-reviewed, digital OER textbooks that are ideal for college courses. As an OpenStax Ally, XanEdu offers FlexEd courses (low-cost digital courseware that integrates directly into your LMS) that are based on many of the most popular OpenStax textbooks.
XanEdu enables colleges and universities to customize and distribute these textbooks — both in print and digitally — at scale.
Learning made relevant, accessible, and affordable
Explore our featured solutions:
Open RN
XanEdu is pleased to partner with Open RN to provide digital courseware and OER for college nursing programs.
UTA Libraries Mavs Open Press
XanEdu handles the fulfillment and distribution of print formats of Mavs Open Press course materials to college bookstores, faculty, and students.
Duquesne University Press
XanEdu is the print, publishing, and fulfillment partner for Duquesne University Press books.
XanEdu Custom Book Catalog
Explore books published by XanEdu and authored by faculty at institutions around the world
Why colleges and universities choose XanEdu
“We choose XanEdu because of their excellent customer service and hassle-free returns policy. I have over 10 years of experience doing business with XanEdu and have never been let down.”
Bookstore Manager, Adelphi University Bookstore
“XanEdu put together a custom course reader for a large class of 500 students. They were consummate professionals throughout, listening to our needs, setting clear timelines, and keeping us on track with everything that needed to be done.”
Faculty member, New York liberal arts college
“Thank you XanEdu team. You are amazing! You really held my hand on this new venture. Now the struggle is what to delete, since the FlexEd course content is so good.”
Associate Professor, Business & Economics Department, University of Cincinnati
Ready to learn more?
Connect with our team to explore how our higher education solutions can support your college or university’s faculty, bookstore, library, and students.