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Welcome to Lumen Learning's
"Overview of Open Course Frameworks."
An open course framework is a design approach
aimed to increase adoption of Open Educational Resources
as well as eliminate course materials costs
and improve student success.
Lumen Learning publishes the courses with open licenses
and makes them freely available to the education community.
These open courses are developed through collaboration
between the Lumen Learning team and faculty members from multiple
institutions. For this tutorial,
we will walk through the Introduction to Psychology course,
as an example. When you click on the course link from Lumen Learning's website,
it takes you to the Open Courses home page. On the homepage,
you see the course title and modules in the center.
The left-hand navigation takes you to specific course components,
such as assignments, syllabus, quizzes,
and so forth. First, let's look at the modules.
This listing includes resources
for instructors to provide guidance and help for using an open course
effectively.
Resources for students to maximize their experience
and help them succeed in the course. This section should be customized to include
information
about technical academic and other support services provided by your
institution.
And resources in a Start Here module,
which serves as a low stakes, high success opportunity for students to
familiarize themselves
with the course. After that,
each course contains specific modules associated with the principles
and educational content covered in the course.
The modules are organized to map to student learning outcomes for the course.
Each module introduces concepts
and provides a variety of readings and course activities to help students learn
and apply the course content.
At the bottom of each page you'll see the attribution
and licensing for all of the content utilized on that page.
The course mapping page under Instructor Resources
serves as a blueprint to show you how each module's content aligns with
specific
learning outcomes.
Each open course supports the Quality Matters mission
and concept of alignment across learning outcomes,
assessments, content, technology,
and accessibility. You can also see how each assessment
ties back to a rubric, which in turn links back to respective course
outcomes.
Every open course is designed so you can each it as is,
or you can diverge from the published version
to add, remove, revise, remix the course materials.
It's completely up to you.
Before teaching with an open course,
you will want to create your own version at the course.
Email
support@lumenlearning to request the course export common cartridge file.
This should allow you to import the course
into your institution's learning management system.
Thank you for your time in learning more about open courses.
We invite you to explore open courses and other
OER resources and services from Lumen Learning
at www.lumenlearning.com.
Feel free to direct any questions to
info@lumenlearning.com