OER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY

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Students use the familiar bookstore purchasing process to pay for printed materials, platform or other support fees associated with reliable, effective OER. See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a Lumen Expert

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Host a […]

OER ADOPTION IMPACT CALCULATOR

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Use the OER Adoption Impact Calculator to explore different ways OER can make a meaningful difference to your institution, faculty, and students. See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a Lumen Expert

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The published research literature suggests […]

COMPARE YOUR CAMPUS TO PEER INSTITUTIONS

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Learn what your institutional peers are doing with open educational resources, and use this information to build a case for how to differentiate and benefit your campus community by adopting OER. See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a Lumen Expert

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ENGAGE YOUR LIBRARY

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Recognize and develop relationships with librarians as strong allies supporting OER awareness and adoption for your campus community. See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a Lumen Expert

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Librarians have the power to reach a […]

ENGAGE STUDENT LEADERSHIP

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Cultivate relationships with student leaders to help raise awareness about textbook affordability and advocate for broader use of OER. See More Plays Back to Playbook Home Ask a Lumen Expert

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OER COMMITTEE

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Create and sustain a cross-functional OER steering committee.

 

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Having a committee that meets regularly and is charged with making decisions and promoting OER can be […]

News: College Math Departments Scale Up with Low-cost OER Courseware, Putting Affordability First

Institutions use OER-based Lumen OHM on a wide scale to improve affordability, access, and student success

Portland, Ore. (March 21, 2018) – According to Lumen Learning, 2018-2019 will be a record year for college math departments moving away from traditional publishers’ expensive online textbook packages and towards […]

Open Content Blog: Thinking About Impact

By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer

Originally posted on the opencontent.org blog, February 9, 2018 

In the spirit of iterating toward openness, I’ve recently had the opportunity to revisit some of my earlier thinking about how to measure the impact of OER-related work. Some of this seemed interesting enough that I thought I would share.

I have  […]

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 Microeconomics courses. We’ve devoted much of this past year to gathering feedback, analyzing learning data, […]

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 year collectively across all the institutions we support, we’re proud to announce that we […]