News
News: New Public Speaking Waymaker Course
We’re pleased to announce a new course now available in our catalog: Public Speaking. This new course is available in Lumen’s affordable Waymaker platform, which replaces expensive textbooks using a combination of open education resources [...]
News: New Financial Accounting OHM Course
We’re pleased to announce a new course now available in our catalog: Financial Accounting. This new course is available in Lumen’s affordable Online Homework Manager (OHM) platform, which replaces expensive textbooks and online homework systems [...]
Choosing Flexible Courseware Aligned to Your Learning Objectives
Our iLumenation series explores relevant topics and challenges that faculty across higher education institutions are facing today. In this final post, we take an in-depth look at and share tips on how to identify course [...]
Forging Fellowships of Effective Educators
Lumen Awards Certificates in Effective Teaching Practice to Fall 2020 Lumen Circles Faculty Fellows Last June Lumen Learning purchased the higher education assets of Faculty Guild, an organization that facilitated virtual communities of practice to [...]
A Round of Applause for Effective Teaching
Lumen Awards Certificates in Effective Teaching with Courseware to First Cohort of Lumen Circles Success Accelerator Fellows Julie Curtis, VP Lumen Circles When we launched Lumen Circles’ Success Accelerator program in August, we understood it’s [...]
Supporting Adjuncts, Supporting Students: Creating Stronger Outcomes For Learning
Adjunct faculty play an important role in higher education. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 46% of all post-secondary instructors are part-time, non-tenured faculty.* At nearly half of the total instructors, institutions increasingly [...]
A New Model for Professional Development
David Wiley, PhD, Chief Academic Officer As my colleagues at Lumen and I have reflected on our mission - to enable unprecedented learning for all students - we’ve come to realize that while creating highly [...]
Using Digital Courseware to Create Thriving Communities
Every educator has faced the challenge of engaging students and building community. Today’s environment, where learning may be online, face-to-face, or a hybrid between the two, makes it even harder. But it doesn’t have to [...]
New Learning Hacks Help Students Improve Learning and Studying Skills
What are Learning Hacks? Learning hacks are short summaries of rigorous learning science research that are approachable for first-year college students and provide simple actions students can take to improve how they learn. In a [...]