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News: Carnegie Mellon University, Lumen Learning Partner To Expand Support for Evidence-based Learning Materials
Mission-aligned collaboration demonstrates promising model for continuously improving effectiveness of learning materials Pittsburgh and Portland, Ore. (April 10, 2019) – Carnegie Mellon University’s Simon Initiative and open courseware provider Lumen Learning today announced a partnership [...]
New Edition: Introduction to Psychology
By Wendy King and Jamison Miller One of our most-adopted OER courses is Introduction to Psychology. Since introducing it in 2017, we’ve received excellent feedback about its interactivity, the richness of the content, and how [...]
The OER Degree Initiative Catalog
By Kim Thanos, CEO In conjunction with Open Education Week 2019, we’re happy to introduce the OER Degree Initiative Course Catalog, a collection of course materials developed for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Degree Initiative, led [...]
Odessa College Fuels Student Success with OER Courseware
Open educational resources (OER) play a central role in Odessa College’s relentless efforts to remove obstacles to student success. Partnering with Lumen Learning to provide state-of-the-art OER courseware designed to strengthen learning for at-risk students, Odessa [...]
Auld Lang Syne
By Kim Thanos, CEOAt the end of the calendar year, it’s customary to raise a glass and toast the days we’ve passed, along with our hopes for what the future will bring. Thanks to a [...]
New Course Release: Introduction to Business
By Vallerie Mott, Course Product Manager We’re excited to announce the release of a new version of Introduction to Business, one of Lumen’s most popular OER courses. A huge benefit of using OER is our [...]
News: Three Lumen Learning Customers Win 2018 Digital Learning Innovation Awards
Lumen OER courseware plays instrumental role in programs recognized for improving student outcomes using digital courseware Portland, Ore. (November 28, 2018) – Salt Lake Community College, the University of Mississippi, and The American Women’s College at Bay Path [...]
Coming Together to Improve Education
By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. (Herbert A. Simon, 1986) The faculty Lumen work with carry an [...]
A Framework for Continuous Improvement of OER
By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer The potential of the "data revolution" in teaching and learning, just as in other sectors, is to create much more timely feedback loops for tracking the effectiveness of a [...]