This document summarizes a webinar presented by Lumen Learning about high-impact open educational resource (OER) courses in the social sciences. Lumen Learning develops OER courses by curating, organizing, and enriching existing open resources, and provides faculty support and tools for customizing courses in the learning management system. The webinar previewed Lumen's psychology and sociology OER courses and provided information on how to learn more about adopting the courses.

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lumen High-Impact OER Courses:
Social Sciences
Lumen Learning Webinar
October 2015

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Topics
Webinar: High-Impact OER Courses
Introductions
How Lumen Courses Work
Social Sciences Course Preview:
Psychology
Sociology
Q&A

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Lumen Learning: Improving student success using OER
What We Do
1. Guide institutions in effective use of OER
• Program design
2. Make adoption easy and powerful for faculty
• Curation
• Simple, clean tools
• Integration with LMS
3. Measure and improve efficacy
4. Sustain and support use
• Content updates
• Technology updates
• Sharing across the community
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Lumen: An Ideal Starting Point for OER Courses
How Lumen Courses Work
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Course
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Lumen
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Curate,
align
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organize
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Supplement
and
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Enable
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Train
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fee:
$5
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enrollment

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Getting to large-scale impact on affordability and access
High-Impact OER Courses
High
Textbook
Cost
High
Student
Enrollments
Strong
Exis=ng
OER

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Preview: High-Impact OER Courses
Social Sciences
Lumen Course Catalog:
https://courses.candelalearning.com/catalog/lumen
Psychology
Sociology

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How can I learn more?
High-Impact OER Courses
1. Email info@lumenlearning.com about what course(s) you’re
interested in and any questions you may have
2. We’ll get you access to courses for review
3. We work through the right channels to get an agreement in
place and other appropriate next steps.

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Learn More
High-Impact OER Courses
Questions?
More Information:
lumenlearning.com
Julie Curtis, julie@lumenlearning.com
Wendy King, wendy@lumenlearning.com
General inquiries: info@lumenlearning.com

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Upcoming Webinars
High-Impact OER Courses
http://lumenlearning.com/webinars/
11/04: High Impact OER Courses: Accounting

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Thank you