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Learn, Build and Grow with Lumen Learning’s First Virtual Hackathon
By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer I've recently had a fair amount of time in which I could think and ponder (but not do much else), and I find that my thoughts are turning more [...]
Course Update: Introduction to Business
By Dan Ly, Director of Teaching and Learning As part of our commitment to continuously improve OER course materials to strengthen learning, we released an updated edition of Lumen’s most-adopted Waymaker course, Introduction to Business, [...]
The University of Mississippi
https://youtu.be/QRXwYgjuoGU Addressing College Readiness Gaps in First-Year Composition First-year students enter the University of Mississippi with varying degrees of readiness for college-level writing. Student preparation gaps are evident in foundational content knowledge and rhetorical [...]
CMU Partners with Lumen Learning for Coordinated Delivery and Support of Evidence-based Courseware
Pittsburgh, PA and Portland, Ore. (June 27, 2019) – Two leading providers of evidence-based learning materials, the Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI) and open education innovator Lumen Learning, today announced plans to provide [...]
New Course: Organizational Behavior/Human Relations
By Dan Ly, Director of Teaching and Learning We’re excited to share Lumen Learning’s newest course: Organizational Behavior/Human Relations. These course materials introduce students to the field of organizational behavior and how to analyze the [...]
SUNY System Enters 3-year Partnership with Lumen Learning to Support Innovative Teaching & Learning
System-wide agreement makes evidence-based courseware, technology, and OER support services available at no cost to students Portland, Ore. (June 12, 2019) – The State University of New York (SUNY) and open education innovator Lumen Learning, [...]
Continuous Improvement is for Platforms, Too
By David Wiley, Chief Academic OfficerIn 2014, Lumen was selected as a winner of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Next Generation Courseware Challenge competition. This funding gave us time and space to think about [...]
VCCS Funds Access to Lumen’s Supported OER Courseware with No Cost to Students
Virginia Community College System renews agreement making Lumen Learning’s OER courseware and support services available to any VCCS student, faculty, and college Portland, Ore. (May 16, 2019) – Lumen Learning announced it has finalized an [...]
Expanding Our Commitment to Continuous Improvement: Partnerships and Community
By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer Learning Materials Are Hypotheses All learning materials are collections of hypotheses. They represent a series of guesses about what will effectively support student learning. Should students be reading [...]