News: Lumen Learning Announces New Solution to Improve Teaching Effectiveness and Bolster Student Success in Higher Education

Lumen Circles professional development platform and services focus on timely capabilities such as online teaching; active learning; open pedagogy; evidence-based teaching; and diversity, equity, and inclusion

PORTLAND, Ore. (June 16, 2020) – Education innovator Lumen Learning announced plans to expand its work beyond open educational resources (OER) […]

News: Lumen Learning Acquires Faculty Guild’s Higher Education Assets

Lumen to launch Lumen Circles, a facilitated, peer-based professional development platform and services solution for higher education 

PORTLAND, Ore. (June 16, 2020) – Lumen Learning announced it has acquired the intellectual property and higher education assets of Faculty Guild, a coaching service created in 2017 by education […]

TARGET NEW AND PART TIME FACULTY

Use this play to:

Identify areas where your institution wants to make an impact with OER, including impact points that motivate key stakeholders to engage (such as student success, textbook cost savings, or academic ownership). Set near, medium, and long term goals for OER adoption and impact, and identify how you will […]

OER AWARD AND RECOGNITION PROGRAM*

Use this play to: 

Create an award program to recognize and express appreciation for individual contributions moving towards broader use of OER.

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OER OFFICE HOURS

Schedule regular windows when members of your campus community can come to you, ask questions, and get help for teaching with OER. See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a Lumen Expert

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Why OER Office Hours? Office Hours […]

PEER MENTORS AND OER AMBASSADORS*

Use this play to:

Designate faculty mentors who act as ambassadors to raise awareness about your OER initiative, invite and mentor their peers adopting OER course materials.

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FACULTY WORKSHOP & TRAINING PROGRAM*

Use this play to:

Identify, develop and deliver hands-on, workshop-style training to build effective OER teaching and learning techniques.

Note: Asterisk denotes this is a proven, high-impact play.
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ON-ON-ONE COFFEE CONVERSATIONS

Take time to sit down with individual faculty members over coffee, show them OER materials and ask what they think. Meet them where they are to build bridges for OER.   See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a Lumen Expert

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FACULTY ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS

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Invite faculty to attend an in-person or virtual Faculty/Student Roundtable session to hear from faculty and/or students who have used OER, and to bring their questions. See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a Lumen Expert

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