“…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 […]
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 […]
WESTCHESTER, Ill. and PORTLAND, Ore., April 17, 2017 – Follett and Lumen Learning today announced a partnership to lower costs and improve student success through the use of academic content and courseware based entirely on open educational resources (OER). Follett will […]
Providing academic research to back up claims about cost savings attributed to open educational resources, this study documents the textbook cost to students before and after OER adoption at eight institutions in a variety of college subjects.
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This extensive, multi-institution study provides evidence that students in OER courses perform as well as or better than students in courses using commercial textbooks with regard to withdrawal rates, passing with a C or better, and course grade.
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At Virginia’s Tidewater Community College (TCC), OER courses in TCC’s “Z-Degree” program have lower withdrawal rates compared to those using commercial materials. Students in “Z-courses” also register for more credits than their counterparts who are not taking OER courses. As a result of findings from the following study, TCC uses the incremental tuition revenue retained when […]