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News: Lumen joins Military Spouse Employment Partnership
One of the bright spots for Lumen at the end of 2020 was being accepted into the Department of Defense’s Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP). We are excited about this partnership and the opportunity it [...]
News: 115 Million Visitors Visit Lumen Learning’s Content in 2020
As 2020 comes to a close, we’re excited to share that we’ve seen significant growth in the number of users of our content. With a 63% increase from 2019, Lumen will finish 2020 with over [...]
News: New Public Speaking Waymaker Course
We’re pleased to announce a new course now available in our catalog: Public Speaking.This new course is available in Lumen’s affordable Waymaker platform, which replaces expensive textbooks using a combination of open education resources (OER) [...]
News: New Financial Accounting OHM Course
We’re pleased to announce a new course now available in our catalog: Financial Accounting. This new course is available in Lumen’s affordable Online Homework Manager (OHM) platform, which replaces expensive textbooks and online homework systems [...]
Choosing Flexible Courseware Aligned to Your Learning Objectives
Our iLumenation series explores relevant topics and challenges that faculty across higher education institutions are facing today. In this final post, we take an in-depth look at and share tips on how to identify course [...]
Forging Fellowships of Effective Educators
Lumen Awards Certificates in Effective Teaching Practice to Fall 2020 Lumen Circles Faculty Fellows Last June Lumen Learning purchased the higher education assets of Faculty Guild, an organization that facilitated virtual communities of practice to [...]
A Round of Applause for Effective Teaching
Lumen Awards Certificates in Effective Teaching with Courseware to First Cohort of Lumen Circles Success Accelerator Fellows Julie Curtis, VP Lumen Circles When we launched Lumen Circles’ Success Accelerator program in August, we understood it’s [...]
Supporting Adjuncts, Supporting Students: Creating Stronger Outcomes For Learning
Adjunct faculty play an important role in higher education. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 46% of all post-secondary instructors are part-time, non-tenured faculty.* At nearly half of the total instructors, institutions increasingly [...]
A New Model for Professional Development
David Wiley, PhD, Chief Academic Officer As my colleagues at Lumen and I have reflected on our mission - to enable unprecedented learning for all students - we’ve come to realize that while creating highly [...]