Richard G. Baraniuk, the C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and founding director of OpenStax, Rice’s educational technology initiative, has received the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education.  The award is given annually by the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and goes to “outstanding individuals whose accomplishments are making a difference in the lives of students.”  Baraniuk is one of the founders of the Open Education movement that promotes the use of free and open-source-licensed Open Educational Resources. He is founder and director of OpenStax (formerly Connexions), a non-profit educational and scholarly publishing project he founded in 1999 to bring textbooks and other learning materials into the digital age.