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Reading Research on Learning: In Pursuit of the Holy Grail
In Pursuit of the Holy Grail Chapter 13 Dr. David Wiley, Co-Founder, Chief Academic Officer This chapter reviews Bloom’s classic 1984 article on the “2 sigma problem.” Personally, I find this article to be one [...]
Reading Research on Learning: What You Know Determines What You Learn
What You Know Determines What You Learn Chapter 6 Dr. David Wiley, Co-Founder, Chief Academic Officer This chapter is about Ausbel’s 1960 paper on “advance organizers” (and no, it’s not “advanced organizers”). The key insight [...]
An Update On Our Community-Driven Continuous Improvement Efforts
Bob Bodily, PhD, Director of Data Science & Research In January of 2020, we started an experimental community-driven continuous improvement project with a few of our Waymaker courses. This was the continuous improvement process we [...]
Using Digital Courseware to Gain Actionable Data
With the advancements of technology and digital courseware tools, you have access to more learning data than ever before. However, that data isn’t much help if it’s not actionable. A recent report by Digital Promise, [...]
Becoming a Teaching AND Learning Company
David Wiley, PhD, Chief Academic Officer Today is a major milestone for Lumen as we announce a professional development offering for higher education faculty called Lumen Circles. Let me share with you how we got [...]
Student Perspectives on Remote Learning
By Kiana Pincock, Marketing Intern Remote learning has certainly been a tremendous change for both teachers and students. Teachers, I feel for you. Many teachers were given 1-2 weeks to move all of their classes [...]
Teaching Online: Recommended Resources
The Lumen Team is expert in many things, including effective teaching and learning using open educational resources. Yet as institutions, faculty and students face tremendous uncertainty around the impact of COVID-19, it’s worthwhile to seek [...]
CEO Message: Lumen Stands Ready to Help
By Kim Thanos, CEO It's painful to see the havoc COVID-19 is wreaking in communities globally. Working day in and day out in higher education, this week it is dizzying to see the pace at [...]
News: A Milestone Year for OER Designed to Strengthen Learning
Open Education innovator Lumen Learning crosses 100K mark for students using supported OER in a single term Portland, Ore. (August 21, 2018) – Now entering its sixth back-to-school season, Lumen Learning today announced it crossed [...]