"JUST TRY IT"
Use this play to:
Challenge faculty to jump in and just try OER for the first time, using content that gives them an easy starting point for making the shift to open content. See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a Lumen Expert […]
OER COMMITTEE
Use this play to:
Create and sustain a cross-functional OER steering committee.
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Running the Play
Having a committee that meets regularly and is charged with making decisions and promoting OER can be […]
Faculty Roundtable: Waymaker English Composition
“…consider your local situation when adopting OER and don’t invent problems that don’t exist, think through where there are actual gaps that need to be filled…”
Faculty Roundtable Sessions bring together faculty who are already using Lumen-supported OER courses with those who are exploring this path. On Wednesday, October 25th, 2017, an innovative […]
Faculty Roundtable: OER for Math and Lumen OHM
“…I love [OHM] and I hope I never have to use anything else again!”
Faculty Roundtable Sessions bring together faculty who are already using Lumen-supported OER courses with those who are exploring this path. On Monday, October 17th, 2017, we had the opportunity to speak with Matthew and Libby Watts of Tidewater Community […]
Faculty Roundtable: Waymaker Introduction to Psychology
“…I’ve had students say, ‘I wish all of my classes were like this!’ and how easy and affordable it is…”
Lumen’s Faculty Roundtable sessions bring faculty together who have already adopted Lumen-supported OER courses with those who are exploring this path. For our Roundtable discussion on October 23th, 2017, we had the opportunity […]
Faculty Roundtable: Waymaker Concepts in Statistics
“…My [student] success rates have gone up approximately 13% since switching from paid textbooks to Lumen OER content for Introduction to Statistics.”
Faculty Roundtable Sessions bring together faculty who are already using Lumen-supported OER courses with those who are exploring this path. On Tuesday, October 24th, 2017, we had the opportunity to speak […]
Faculty Roundtable: Waymaker Introduction to Business with Wendy Wright
“…[Lumen] has been fantastic, I had a Waymaker-related question this morning and by the time I got out of class an hour and a half later, I had a response.”
Lumen’s Faculty Roundtable sessions bring faculty together who have already adopted Lumen-supported OER courses with those who are exploring […]
Faculty Roundtable: Waymaker Introduction to Business with Linda Williams
“…We have seen an increase in overall student success, with 10% less students dropping and a 6% increase in students finishing a course with a C or better…”
Lumen’s Faculty Roundtable sessions bring together faculty who have already adopted Lumen-supported OER courses with those who are exploring this path. In a […]
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 hard it was for faculty to replace publisher materials with OER. The 2000s were an inspiring decade as institutions and […]