Engineering Intern

Remote, US based

About Lumen Learning
Lumen’s company mission is to create unprecedented learning for all students. Lumen provides solutions that create effective learning experiences for students and guide faculty members in the use of evidence-based teaching practices that improve student success. Each year, we support 400,000 college students and 5,000 faculty members.
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Recently Updated Course: Chemistry for Majors

We’re excited to share that we recently released an updated version of Chemistry for Majors in our affordable and easy-to-use online homework manager, OHM. This update is part of our commitment to continuously improve our course materials to strengthen student learning.

What’s improved?

The course content has been updated […]

An Update On Our Community-Driven Continuous Improvement Efforts

Bob Bodily, PhD, Director of Data Science & Research

In January of 2020, we started an experimental community-driven continuous improvement project with a few of our Waymaker courses. This was the continuous improvement process we followed:

  1. We added a “Contribute!” button to the bottom of every content page.
  2. […]

Forging Fellowships of Effective Educators

Lumen Awards Certificates in Effective Teaching Practice to Fall 2020 Lumen Circles Faculty Fellows

Last June Lumen Learning purchased the higher education assets of Faculty Guild, an organization that facilitated virtual communities of practice to help faculty hone their expertise as effective teachers.

We took this step because it moves […]

A Round of Applause for Effective Teaching

Lumen Awards Certificates in Effective Teaching with Courseware to First Cohort of Lumen Circles Success Accelerator Fellows

Julie Curtis, VP Lumen Circles

When we launched Lumen Circles’ Success Accelerator program in August, we understood it’s a bit of a different animal. Success Accelerator is a professional development program […]

News: Lumen Learning Announces New Solution to Improve Teaching Effectiveness and Bolster Student Success in Higher Education

Lumen Circles professional development platform and services focus on timely capabilities such as online teaching; active learning; open pedagogy; evidence-based teaching; and diversity, equity, and inclusion

PORTLAND, Ore. (June 16, 2020) – Education innovator Lumen Learning announced plans to expand its work beyond open educational resources (OER) […]

News: Lumen Learning Acquires Faculty Guild’s Higher Education Assets

Lumen to launch Lumen Circles, a facilitated, peer-based professional development platform and services solution for higher education 

PORTLAND, Ore. (June 16, 2020) – Lumen Learning announced it has acquired the intellectual property and higher education assets of Faculty Guild, a coaching service created in 2017 by education […]

Becoming a Teaching AND Learning Company

David Wiley, PhD, Chief Academic Officer

Today is a major milestone for Lumen as we announce a professional development offering for higher education faculty called Lumen Circles. Let me share with you how we got here, what it means, and why we’re doing it now.

In Lumen’s Beginning, There Was OER 

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Student Perspectives on Remote Learning

By Kiana Pincock, Marketing Intern

Remote learning has certainly been a tremendous change for both teachers and students. Teachers, I feel for you. Many teachers were given 1-2 weeks to move all of their classes online (which is no easy feat). Students have also been impacted by these changes. However, while challenging in some respects, the […]