Continuous Improvement is for Platforms, Too

By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer

In 2014, Lumen was selected as a winner of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Next Generation Courseware Challenge competition. This funding gave us time and space to think about what the characteristics and design of “next generation courseware” might look like. The result of this process, our Waymaker […]

VCCS Funds Access to Lumen’s Supported OER Courseware with No Cost to Students

Virginia Community College System renews agreement making Lumen Learning’s OER courseware and support services available to any VCCS student, faculty, and college

Portland, Ore. (May 16, 2019) – Lumen Learning announced it has finalized an agreement with the Virginia Community College System […]

News: Carnegie Mellon University, Lumen Learning Partner To Expand Support for Evidence-based Learning Materials

Mission-aligned collaboration demonstrates promising model for continuously improving effectiveness of learning materials 

Pittsburgh and Portland, Ore. (April 10, 2019) – Carnegie Mellon University’s Simon Initiative and open courseware provider Lumen Learning today announced a partnership to share tools for developing, evaluating and […]

New Edition: Introduction to Psychology

By Wendy King and Jamison Miller

One of our most-adopted OER courses is Introduction to Psychology. Since introducing it in 2017, we’ve received excellent feedback about its interactivity, the richness of the content, and how well it engages students.

Now this great course is even […]

The OER Degree Initiative Catalog

By Kim Thanos, CEO

In conjunction with Open Education Week 2019, we’re happy to introduce the OER Degree Initiative Course Catalog, a collection of course materials developed for the Open Educational Resources (OER) Degree Initiative, led by Achieving the Dream […]

Auld Lang Syne

By Kim Thanos, CEO

At the end of the calendar year, it’s customary to raise a glass and toast the days we’ve passed, along with our hopes for what the future will bring.

Thanks to a marvelous community of institutions, faculty, and our dedicated internal team, Lumen Learning has seen […]

New Course Release: Introduction to Business

By Vallerie Mott, Course Product Manager

We’re excited to announce the release of a new version of Introduction to Business, one of Lumen’s most popular OER courses. A huge benefit of using OER is our ability to make rapid, timely updates focused on improving student learning.

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