Lumen Learning

Lumen helps educational institutions reduce textbook costs, reinvigorate pedagogy, and improve student success using open educational resources and learning analytics. Open educational resources represent a largely untapped opportunity to reduce costs to both institutions and learners, while at the same time improving student success. However, many institutional leaders are unsure what to do to help their institutions, faculty, and learners take full advantage of OER. Lumen helps institutional leaders and faculty address the major challenges of OER adoption: - Finding quality content and mapping it to course learning outcomes. Lumen works with faculty around the country to review and aggregate the best OER from around the web, design these resources into Open Course Frameworks that match general education and other degree requirements, and posts these open course frameworks online. This process results in open course frameworks that are free for any individual or institution to download and use. - Incorporating OER into academic strategy and curriculum decisions. Lumen provides strategic services to help institutional leaders plan for using OER, including how and where it makes sense to introduce OER into courses and degree programs. - Training and supporting faculty. Lumen services train and support faculty as institutions begin the process of adopting OER. - Improving student outcomes. Lumen offers analytics and other support services to help maximize student success at institutions using OER.