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 […]

              New Year, New Catalog

              By Julie Curtis, VP Strategy & Communication

              As we work with colleges and universities across the country, a common request we hear is, “Can you make it easier for my faculty members to find and adopt your OER course materials?”

              The campus leaders and OER champions we support are not alone in this […]

                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 […]