Through years of collaboration with faculty and institutions, Lumen Learning has developed not only a growing catalog of road-tested courses designed using open educational resources, but also an engagement approach that helps institutions make a sustained impact with OER. This webinar shares how we develop OER courses and support institutions and faculty through the processes of course adoption, customization and continuous improvement. Gain insight into Lumen’s support model, pricing, and strategies we recommend to help students, faculty and institutions realize the full benefits of OER.

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lumen
Jump-Starting Success with Open
Educational Resources
The Lumen Model for OER Courses and Support
October 2015

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Discussion Topics
Lumen
Purpose
Lumen’s
Approach
to
OER-­‐based
Courses
Lumen
Support
Model
High-­‐Impact
Adop@on
Models
Recommended
Strategies
for
Success
Q&A
Jump-Starting Success with Open Educational Resources

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Impact of Textbook Cost on Student Success
Source: 2012 student survey by Florida Virtual Campus
60%+ do not purchase textbooks at
some point due to cost
35% take fewer courses due to
textbook cost
31% choose not to register for a
course due to textbook cost
23% regularly go without textbooks
due to cost
14% have dropped a course due
to textbook cost
10% have withdrawn from a course
due to textbook cost

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About Lumen Learning
• Founders: Kim Thanos and David Wiley
• What We Do: Increase affordability,
access, and student success
• How We Do It: Courseware designed
using open educational resources (OER)
• Approach: Model openness
• Respect and build community
• Continuous improvement
• Openly license and share
Facts:
• .com company
• partially owned by a
charitable foundation
• formed in 2012
• led Kaleidoscope Open
Course Initiative
• based in Portland, OR
• 60+ institutional clients

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Defining Questions
1. Can open content increase success for at-­‐risk
students?
2. How can the best of learning science and
technology improve the effecIveness of OER
for disadvantaged students?
3. How can OER help insItuIons achieve their
goals for affordability, access, student success?

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Supporting improved student success with OER
1. Guide insItuIons in effecIve use
• Program design
2. Make adopIon easy and powerful for faculty
• CuraIon
• Simple, clean tools
• IntegraIon with LMS
3. Measure and improve efficacy
4. Sustain and support use
• Content updates
• Technology updates
• Sharing across the community
What We Do

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Evaluation
Efficacy
Best practices
Obstacles
Impact
# of students
Academic success
Cost savings
Faculty success
Investment
Lumen
Institutions
Faculty members
Community
An Iterative
Design Process

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Course Building Process
Iden@fy
collaborators/
SMEs
Iden@fy
learning
outcomes
Iden@fy
exis@ng
OER
Fill
gaps
&
enrich
content
Organize
into
course
structure
w/
learning
design
Curate
OER
&
map
to
learning
outcomes
Customize
content
Teach
with
the
course
&
evaluate
efficacy
Iden@fy
&
make
improvements

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What types of OER-based courses does Lumen offer?
Candela Courseware Waymaker Courseware
• Basic e-text replacement
• 60+ high-enrollment subjects
• GE / first two years of college
• Developmental education
• Catalog:
https://courses.candelalearning.com/catalog/
lumen
• $5 per student enrollment
• Personalized learning meets
OER
• Assessments as learning tools
• Individualized intervention
• Metacognitive development
• Catalog: 3 courses; more
planned
• $25 per student enrollment

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View Lumen Courses
Lumen
Course
Catalog:
hOps://
courses.candelalearning.com/
catalog/lumen

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Lumen Supported Courseware Model
Support
Features
Freely
Available
Candela
Waymaker
Curate,
align,
organize
OER
into
course
structure
✔
✔
✔
Supplement
and
enrich
OER
✔
✔
✔
Seamless
delivery
in
LMS
✔
✔
Course
editability
and
customiza@on
✔
✔
Ongoing
faculty
training
and
support
✔
✔
Maintain
aOribu@ons,
updates,
improvements
✔
✔
Provide
day
one
access
for
all
students
via
LMS
✔
✔
Support
and
maintain
technology,
integra@on
✔
✔
Personaliza@on
plaRorm
and
tools
for
students,
faculty
✔
Mastery
learning
assessment
strategy
(MGAs)
✔

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Course Customization
Common customizaIon acIviIes:
• Align content with learning outcomes
• Remove content
• Re-­‐order content
• Revise content
• Add new open content
Supporting Faculty

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A Typical Engagement
• Confirm goals, approach, strategy
• Approve zero-­‐cost contract seZng terms
• Per student enrollment fee paid by insItuIon
• Build awareness and idenIfy willing faculty
• On-­‐site workshop-­‐style training & tech implementaIon
• Fee includes Ime, travel, implementaIon ($7,000-­‐$10,000)
• IdenIfy courses to shib to OER
• Support faculty to adopt and customize courses
• Ongoing faculty and tech support
• Apply conInuous improvement process
How We Work

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Fall term by the numbers
68+
62+
350+
386+
25,000+
$2,500,000+
subjects
institutions
faculty
courses
students
textbook cost savings

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Fall term 2015 by the map
Yellow – 2015 adoption
White – Statewide projects launched in 2015

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By course groupings
Top Adoptions
Courses
Fall
2015
Math
(all)
9,466
Pre-­‐calc
4,278
College
Success
3,087
English
Composi@on
I
1,596
Introduc@on
to
Business
1,278
Microeconomics
1,107
Macroeconomics
1,064

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Where to start?
Getting to large-scale impact on affordability and access
High
Textbook
Cost
High
Student
Enrollments
Strong
Exis@ng
OER

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Adoption Model #1: Mercy College
Gradual expansion from small pilot
64%
48%
69%
53%
74%
60%
77%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
FALL
TERM
SPRING
TERM
YEAR
#
STUDENTS
2011
697
2012
695
2013
640
2011
486
2012
513
2013
457
2014
418
No
OER
All
OER
All
OER
Some
OER
All
OER
All
OER
All
OER
Passing
rates
up
29%!
Adapted
from
work
of
Zsuzsa
Komeni-­‐Fejes

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Adoption Model #2: Tidewater Community College
Introduce an OER Degree Program
Impact
of
OER
on
total
cost
of
degree:
Plus:
• Fewer
withdrawals
• More
tui@on
revenue

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Adoption Model #3: Monroe Community College
Complete OER Migration & Customization of a High-impact Course
• Project led by library
• Full adoption of OER for College Success
• Significant localization, “College Success at Monroe CC”
• Print required, with full course catalog embedded
Benefit
for
All:
Drove
op@miza@on
of
pdf
export
from
the
Lumen
plaRorm
Looking
Ahead:
How
are
the
open
college
success
courses
at
Monroe,
Ivy
Tech
and
NOVA
having
common
and
unique
impacts?

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Adoption Model #4: Cerritos College
Departmental Shift to OER
• Project led by Business Department Co-Chair
• Transition all business courses in retail management
program to full OER
• Delivered in the Lumen platform, integrated with Sakai
• Pathway to update and customize content for program
• Single term savings of over $200,000
• Savings for students
• Savings for workforce development partners sponsoring
education programs

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Adoption Model #5: Virginia Community College System
Collaborative, shared courses model

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Lumen Role: Strategic Partnership
Align with Institutional Priorities
• Where
can
OER
forward
current
goals
and
ini@a@ves?
• Where
does
OER
create
new
opportuni@es?
• What
issues
or
concerns
should
we
guard
against?

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Seed the Change You Seek
• Bring
people
and
organiza@ons
along
• Create
recep@vity
and
buy-­‐in
(carrots,
not
s@cks)
• Avoid
forceful
top-­‐down
direc@ves
• Establish
founda@on
and
“infrastructure”
for
OER
• Support
substan@ve
changes
in
ins@tu@onal
support
• Library
• Steering
commiOee
• Policy
Create a Fertile Foundation

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Plan for Sustainability
• Maintain
alignment
with
ins@tu@onal
priori@es
• Track
and
report
progress,
return
on
investment
• Recognize
“open”
isn’t
the
same
as
“free”
• Iden@fy
partners
and
models
for
sustained
support
• Celebrate
successes
• Embrace
lessons
learned
• Tap
into
open
educa@on
community
Look towards the Future

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How can I learn more?
Suggested Next Steps
1. Check
out
Lumen
Course
Catalog:
hOps://courses.candelalearning.com/catalog/lumen
2. Email
info@lumenlearning.com
about
ques@ons
you
may
have
and
which
courses
pique
your
interest
3. Request
a
virtual
mee@ng
to
discuss
your
goals,
address
ques@ons
and
walk
through
courses
4. Start
conversa@ons
in
the
right
channels
on
agreements
and
other
appropriate
next
steps.

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Discussion
Jump-Starting Success with OER
Ques@ons?
More
Informa@on:
lumenlearning.com
Julie
Cur@s,
julie@lumenlearning.com
General
inquiries:
info@lumenlearning.com

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Upcoming Webinars
High-Impact OER Courses
lumenlearning.com/webinars/
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High
Impact
OER
Courses:
Accoun@ng
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High
Impact
OER
Courses:
Social
Sciences

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lumenlearning.com
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