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 […]

      News: A Milestone Year for OER Designed to Strengthen Learning

      Open Education innovator Lumen Learning crosses 100K mark for students using supported OER in a single term

      Portland, Ore. (August 21, 2018) – Now entering its sixth back-to-school season, Lumen Learning today announced it crossed a milestone in June 2018 with over 100,000 students using its supported […]

        News: College Math Departments Scale Up with Low-cost OER Courseware, Putting Affordability First

        Institutions use OER-based Lumen OHM on a wide scale to improve affordability, access, and student success

        Portland, Ore. (March 21, 2018) – According to Lumen Learning, 2018-2019 will be a record year for college math departments moving away from traditional publishers’ expensive online textbook packages and towards […]

          Open Content Blog: Thinking About Impact

          By David Wiley, Chief Academic Officer

          Originally posted on the opencontent.org blog, February 9, 2018 

          In the spirit of iterating toward openness, I’ve recently had the opportunity to revisit some of my earlier thinking about how to measure the impact of OER-related work. Some of this seemed interesting enough that I thought I would share.

          I have  […]

            Open Content in Action: Improving Lumen’s Economics Courses

            By Wendy King, Course Product Manager, Social Sciences

            Enhancing OER for Economics

            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, […]

              An Impactful Year for OER and Learning

              By Kim Thanos, CEO

              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 […]

                Looking for Learning Impact

                By Kim Thanos, CEO

                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?

                Impact = Number of students?

                When the curtain closed […]

                  New Year, New Catalog

                  By Julie Curtis, VP Strategy & Communication

                  As we work with colleges and universities across the country, a common request we hear is, “Can you make it easier for my faculty members to find and adopt your OER course materials?”

                  The campus leaders and OER champions we support are not alone in this […]

                    Faculty Roundtable: Waymaker English Composition

                    “…consider your local situation when adopting OER and don’t invent problems that don’t exist, think through where there are actual gaps that need to be filled…”

                     

                    Faculty Roundtable Sessions bring together faculty who are already using Lumen-supported OER courses with those who are exploring this path. On Wednesday, October 25th, 2017, an innovative […]