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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 [...]
Faculty Roundtable: OER for Math and Lumen OHM
“…I love [OHM] and I hope I never have to use anything else again!” Faculty Roundtable Sessions bring together faculty who are already using Lumen-supported OER courses with those who are [...]
Faculty Roundtable: Waymaker Introduction to Psychology
“...I’ve had students say, ‘I wish all of my classes were like this!’ and how easy and affordable it is..." Lumen’s Faculty Roundtable sessions bring faculty together who have already [...]
Faculty Roundtable: Waymaker Concepts in Statistics
“...My [student] success rates have gone up approximately 13% since switching from paid textbooks to Lumen OER content for Introduction to Statistics." Faculty Roundtable Sessions bring together faculty who are [...]
Faculty Roundtable: Waymaker Introduction to Business with Wendy Wright
“...[Lumen] has been fantastic, I had a Waymaker-related question this morning and by the time I got out of class an hour and a half later, I had a response.” Lumen’s [...]
Faculty Roundtable: Waymaker Introduction to Business with Linda Williams
“...We have seen an increase in overall student success, with 10% less students dropping and a 6% increase in students finishing a course with a C or better…” Lumen’s Faculty Roundtable [...]
Cerritos College
The Business Administration Department at Cerritos College began turning to open educational resources because faculty members saw many students struggling when they could not afford to buy expensive textbooks. After OER led to demonstrable improvement in [...]
Tidewater Community College
In 2013, Tidewater Community College, located in coastal Virginia, became the first accredited institution in the U.S. to offer a degree in which students pay nothing for required textbooks. Dubbed the “Z-Degree” (for zero textbook [...]
Students Save Thousands Using OER
Providing academic research to back up claims about cost savings attributed to open educational resources, this study documents the textbook cost to students before and after OER adoption at eight institutions in a variety [...]