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Lumen OHM College Algebra Corequisite

This course is designed to be used as a corequisite solution or as a traditional College Algebra course with plenty of additional support for those students struggling with prerequisite skills.

OHM Math for the Liberal Arts Corequisite

This course is designed to be used as a corequisite solution or as a traditional Math for Liberal Arts course with plenty of additional support for those students struggling with prerequisite skills and three new quantitative reasoning modules.

Waymaker Introduction to Psychology

With the OpenStax Psychology textbook as a foundation, this comprehensive, ready-to-adopt course enriches learning with frequent real-world examples, curated videos, selected NOBA content, and interactive learning activities to foster practical skills.

Waymaker Lifespan Development

This course covers the growth and development through the lifespan—including physical, cognitive and socioemotional changes through each stage of life.

Waymaker Introduction to Business

This ready-to-adopt Introduction to Business course develops students’ understanding of business fundamentals with learning design structured around timely, real-world case studies and examples.

Waymaker English Composition I

In this course, students learn to use critical thinking, analysis, argumentation, reflection, and making sound rhetorical choices to write effective academic essays. Students also learn techniques for reading, interpreting, and utilizing a variety of sources in their writing.

Waymaker Writing Skills Lab

This course focuses on the rhetorical content and strategies that are the baseline of effective college writing but also tend to give students trouble. The skills lab gives students a way to master these concepts and skills in small bites, through practice opportunities and targeted feedback.

Waymaker Introductory Spanish I

Introductory Spanish I is the first half of a comprehensive introductory Spanish sequence, providing guidance and practice in reading, writing, listening to, and speaking Spanish.

Waymaker Introductory Spanish II

Introductory Spanish II is the second half of a comprehensive introductory Spanish sequence, providing guidance and practice in reading, writing, listening to, and speaking Spanish.

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New Learning Hacks Help Students Improve Learning and Studying Skills

What are Learning Hacks? Learning hacks are short summaries of rigorous learning science research that are approachable for first-year college students and provide simple actions [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Teaching Lumen Introductory Spanish Online: Tips & Suggestions

By John Urang, Course Product Manager, Humanities Lumen's Introductory Spanish I and Spanish II courseware was designed with flexibility in mind; it can be adapted [...]

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Math Department Chair, Salt Lake Community College

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