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Introducing the OER Champion Playbook
By Julie Curtis, VP Strategy & Communication One of the best parts of my job at Lumen Learning is the opportunity to meet the extraordinary people who are choosing to be flag-bearers for open education. [...]
On Crossing a Milestone
By Kim Thanos, CEO In June 2018 we crossed a noteworthy milestone: 100,000 students enrolled in Lumen-supported course materials in a single term. Happily, a spring term College Success course at Ivy Tech Community College [...]
Open Content in Action: Improving Lumen’s Economics Courses
By Wendy King, Course Product Manager, Social Sciences Enhancing OER for Economics Capitalizing on our ability to iterate and improve open content, we are excited to share what we’ve been doing with our Macroeconomics and [...]
An Impactful Year for OER and Learning
By Kim Thanos, CEO As we celebrate Open Education Week 2018, I can’t help but reflect and acknowledge it’s an exciting time to be working with open educational resources (OER). Reviewing what we accomplished last [...]
Looking for Learning Impact
By Kim Thanos, CEOJanuary is a natural time for reflection: How are we doing? What impact are we making? What can we do differently and better in the new year? And what does impact mean, [...]
There is Power in Permissions
By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer Back in May 2017, Boundless announced that its OER course materials and platform would go offline in September 2017. Motivated by that announcement, Lumen Learning collaborated with the Boundless [...]
News: Lumen Learning Hosts Boundless OER Course Archive
PORTLAND, Ore., September 15, 2017 – Today Lumen Learning announced it has made a catalog of Boundless course materials publicly and freely available, hosted on the Lumen Platform. This step ensures openly-licensed Boundless learning materials [...]
News: Open Source Leader Chris Coppola to Join Lumen Learning as Chief Product Officer
PORTLAND, Ore. (June 28, 2017) – Lumen Learning announced the appointment of Chris Coppola as chief product officer, making a strategic addition to the open education company’s leadership team. In this role, he will lead [...]
Open Content Blog: Of Progress, Problems, and Partnerships
By David Wiley Originally posted on the opencontent.org blog, April 17, 2017 In 2012 Kim Thanos and I founded Lumen Learning because, through our Gates-funded work on the Kaleidoscope Project, we had seen first-hand how [...]