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Making S.P.A.C.E. for Student Belonging: 5 Tips for Increasing Faculty and Staff Awareness and Agency

Foreword

Lumen Circles are asynchronous faculty professional development experiences that use virtual learning communities to connect faculty with peers, helping them refine their expertise as student-centered educators. Grounded in evidence-based teaching practices and self-reflection, Lumen Circles are designed to benefit faculty members across disciplines and career stages.

Dr. Iona Ringgold and Dr. […]

Lumen Learning partners with Rockland Community College faculty to improve DEI efforts

Lumen Learning’s multi-year partnership with The State University of New York (SUNY) has paved the way for SUNY institution Rockland Community College (RCC) to receive a 2022 Insight into Diversity Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award. The HEED […]

Southeast Missouri State University

Seeking a Better Math Solution

In 2017, Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO) campus leaders were getting an earful from students and parents about the unreasonable cost of the online homework system required for math courses. Additionally SEMO math professors were dissatisfied with the reliability of the system they were using and frustrated that it […]

The University of Mississippi

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 skills, which are areas often under-assessed […]

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, […]

Salt Lake Community College

Finding a Smarter Solution for Math Education

In 2013, Salt Lake Community College collaborated with Lumen Learning on the Kaleidoscope Open Course Initiative, a Next Generation Learning Challenges project to explore the impact of open educational resources (OER) on student success at institutions serving high […]

Looking for Learning Impact

By Kim Thanos, CEO

January 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, anyway?

Impact = Number of students?

When the curtain closed […]

Cerritos College

The Business Administration Department at Cerritos College began turning to open educational resources because faculty members saw many students struggling when they could not afford to buy expensive textbooks. After OER led to demonstrable improvement in retention rates, the department partnered with Lumen Learning to shift the […]

Tidewater Community College

In 2013, Tidewater Community College, located in coastal Virginia, became the first accredited institution in the U.S. to offer a degree in which students pay nothing for required textbooks. Dubbed the “Z-Degree” (for zero textbook cost) and developed with courseware and support from Lumen […]