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Expanding Our Commitment to Continuous Improvement: Partnerships and Community

By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer

Learning Materials Are Hypotheses

All learning materials are collections of hypotheses. They represent a series of guesses about what will effectively support student learning. Should students be reading text? Watching videos? Playing with simulations? Arguing with peers? Creating and sharing artifacts? Practicing and reflecting on associated feedback? And exactly what should […]

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 […]

Odessa College Fuels Student Success with OER Courseware

Open educational resources (OER) play a central role in Odessa College’s relentless efforts to remove obstacles to student success. Partnering with Lumen Learning to provide state-of-the-art OER courseware designed to strengthen learning for at-risk students, […]

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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News: Three Lumen Learning Customers Win 2018 Digital Learning Innovation Awards

Lumen OER courseware plays instrumental role in programs recognized for improving student outcomes using digital courseware

Portland, Ore. (November 28, 2018) – Salt Lake Community College, the University of Mississippi, and The American Women’s College at Bay Path University were among the 13 colleges and universities recognized by the 2018 Digital Learning Innovation (DLI) Awards. Each of […]

Coming Together to Improve Education

By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. (Herbert A. Simon, 1986)

Photo by Perry Grone on Unsplash The faculty Lumen work with carry an enormous workload. Some have […]

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 complex system. In a field where feedback is already well established as a vital process for both […]