One of the best parts of my job at Lumen Learning is the opportunity to meet the extraordinary people who are choosing to be flag-bearers for open education.
Adopting the language of a movement, we call these people “champions.”
During the age of […]
In June 2018 we crossed a noteworthy milestone: 100,000 students enrolled in Lumen-supported course materials in a single term. Happily, a spring term College Success course at Ivy Tech Community College carried us over the […]
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, […]
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 […]
January is a natural time for reflection: How are we doing? What impact are we making? What can we do differently and better in the new year?
And what does impact mean, anyway?
When the curtain closed […]
Back in May 2017, Boundless announced that its OER course materials and platform would go offline in September 2017. Motivated by that announcement, Lumen Learning collaborated with the Boundless team and Boundless’ parent company, Follett, to create an archive of Boundless’ open course materials. When the Boundless website went offline […]
PORTLAND, Ore., September 15, 2017 – Today Lumen Learning announced it has made a catalog of Boundless course materials publicly and freely available, hosted on the Lumen Platform. This step ensures openly-licensed Boundless learning materials remain available to the education community after Boundless […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (June 28, 2017) – Lumen Learning announced the appointment of Chris Coppola as chief product officer, making a strategic addition to the open education company’s leadership team. In this role, he will lead Lumen’s product organization in the development and delivery of digital course materials designed […]
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 […]