Research
Visiting Lumen One’s Faculty Engagement Center Can Result in Higher Quiz Scores
Students whose instructors regularly visit the Faculty Engagement Center achieve statistically significantly higher quiz scores than students whose instructors do not. Instructors play the primary role in improving student success. You decide how in-class time [...]
Exploring Lumen One: A Deeper Look at the First Equity-Centered Courseware
By: Dr. David Wiley, Co-founder and Chief Academic Officer, Lumen Learning Lumen is deeply committed to eliminating race, income, and gender as predictors of student success in US higher education. Each and every student, regardless [...]
Lumen Learning Participates in SXSW EDU Panel on Equity-Centered Research
By: Daysha Jackson-Sanchez, Vice President of Equity Solutions Last month, I participated in a panel at SXSW EDU, titled “Equity-Centered Research for Innovative Courseware” where I was joined by moderator, Felice Nudelman, Associate Vice President [...]
Intellectual and Emotional Obstacles to Adopting Evidence-based Teaching Practices
Dr. David Wiley | Founder & Chief Academic Officer Helping people adopt evidence-based practices is notoriously difficult. Even in matters of life and death, evidence-based practices frequently go unadopted or take an incredibly long time [...]
Reading Research on Learning: In Pursuit of the Holy Grail
In Pursuit of the Holy Grail Chapter 13 Dr. David Wiley, Co-Founder, Chief Academic Officer This chapter reviews Bloom’s classic 1984 article on the “2 sigma problem.” Personally, I find this article to be one [...]
Reading Research on Learning: What You Know Determines What You Learn
What You Know Determines What You Learn Chapter 6 Dr. David Wiley, Co-Founder, Chief Academic Officer This chapter is about Ausbel’s 1960 paper on “advance organizers” (and no, it’s not “advanced organizers”). The key insight [...]
An Update On Our Community-Driven Continuous Improvement Efforts
Bob Bodily, PhD, Director of Data Science & Research In January of 2020, we started an experimental community-driven continuous improvement project with a few of our Waymaker courses. This was the continuous improvement process we [...]
Supporting Teacher-Student Relationships to Improve Student Learning
By David Wiley, PhD, Chief Academic Officer and Robert Bodily, PhD, Senior Data Scientist A substantive body of research demonstrates the incredible impact teachers can have on student learning when they know where their students are in [...]
A Framework for Continuous Improvement of OER
By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer The potential of the "data revolution" in teaching and learning, just as in other sectors, is to create much more timely feedback loops for tracking the effectiveness of a [...]