Waymaker courses provide powerful, next-generation personalized learning experiences with low cost, day one access. This presentation provides an overview of Lumen’s new Waymaker Microeconomics and Macroeconomics courses, which are designed using open educational resources. Both use peer-reviewed OpenStax College economics textbooks as primary source materials.

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lumen NextGen OER Courses: Waymaker
Microeconomics & Macroeconomics
March 2016

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Lumen Learning: What we do
Focus: Improve student success using OER
1. Guide institutions in effective use of OER
• Program design
2. Make adoption easy and powerful for faculty
• Curation and learning design
• Simple, clean tools
• Integration with LMS
3. Measure and improve efficacy
• Impact on student success
4. Sustain and support use
• Content and technology updates
• Sharing across the community
Facts
• formed
in
2012
• based
in
Portland,
OR
• 60+
ins8tu8onal
clients
• $2.5
million
in
textbook
savings
in
fall
2015

3. Waymaker
Make it utterly simple for:
• students to access great course materials
• students to get feedback on their progress
• faculty to identify struggling students and their
needs
• faculty to support student learning
• students and faculty to develop meaningful
relationships

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Digital Course Materials
Free
Low Cost
High Cost
No personalization or
instrumentation
Highly personalized &
instrumented
Standard OER (e.g., OpenStax)
Lumen Waymaker
Lumen Candela
Traditional Textbooks
Publisher eTexts
Connect MyLab
SmartBook

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Waymaker’s Research-based Interventions
Day 1 access; a fraction of the cost of traditional textbooks
Open Educational Resources (OER)1
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2
Metacognition: coach students on where to focus; learn how to learn
Assessment as a learning activity; strong alignment to learning outcomes
Personalization
Mastery Learning
4
Nurturing the learning process; individualized outreach & intervention
Faculty-student Connection
Focus: Improve student success using OER

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Microeconomics & Macroeconomics
OpenStax College Microeconomics
OpenStax College Macroeconomics
Primary Text
• Contextualize: Why does this matter in the real world? Why should
I care?
• Use of video for storytelling, further explain concepts
• Simulations invite students to play around with and apply concepts
• Mastery approach, encouraging student to establish foundational
concepts and then move to more advanced material (content flow,
assessments)
Enrich Textbook Content

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Learning Outcomes
Microeconomics
Macroeconomics
• Introduc-on
to
Economics
&
Scarcity
• Supply
&
Demand
• Elas-city
• Government
Ac-on
• Surplus
• U-lity
• Produc-on
• Perfect
Compe--on
• Monopoly
• Monopolis-cally
Compe--ve
Industry
• Oligopoly
• Public
Goods
• Globaliza-on,
Trade
&
Finance
• Income
Distribu-on
• Introduc-on
to
Economics
&
Scarcity
• Supply
&
Demand
• Elas-city
• Government
Ac-on
• Surplus
• Macroeconomic
Measures:
GDP
&
Unemployment
• Macroeconomic
Measures:
Infla-on
&
Price
Indexes
• Macro
Workings
• Keynesian
&
Neoclassical
Economics
• Fiscal
Policy
• Monetary
Policy
• Policy
Applica-on
• Globaliza-on,
Trade
&
Finance

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Demonstration
Course Walkthrough

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From: “Student”@UMUC
To: Microeconomics Instructor
… I appreciate all the times you went out of your way to email me tips to
do better the next week and even compliment me when I showed
improvement. No other teacher has done that for me and especially
since this is an online course and there is no in person interaction, it just
made me feel pretty good to know I had a teacher always looking out for
my best interest.
From: Microeconomics Instructor@UMUC
To: Lumen Learning
I wanted to share with you this student's perspective on how
cared for he felt in this course. He was contacted almost
solely through the Waymaker automatic messaging. I am
really impressed.
Actual Example:
Waymaker’s
Personal Impact

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Affordable, Personalized Learning
Lumen course support fee:
$25 per student enrollment
• Day one access for all students via LMS
• Billed directly to institution after add/drop window
• No paywall for students
• No external textbook cost
• Consider adding low-cost course materials fee in lieu of
expensive textbook or allocating student tech fee funds

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How Lumen Delivers Waymaker
• Integrates into any major LMS (via LTI)
• Course content delivered via thin common cartridge export
• Bring course content into LMS course shell
• Instructor configures and customizes inside LMS course shell

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What Waymaker Courses Provide
Content & Features
Instructor Resources
Student Orientation
Personalized Study Plan
Course Modules
Machine-Graded Assessments
Sample Performance Assessments
Sample Grading Rubrics
Waymaker Faculty Tools – Messaging, Alerts
User Support
LMS Integration
Faculty Training & Support
Day One Access for Students
Coming for Fall
Sample discussion forums
More sample assignments
Larger quiz banks
Edit/delete quiz questions
Student view of quiz results anytime
Instructor view of aggregate class
performance, trouble spots
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Highlighting and annotation

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Take a Closer Look at the Course
Request credentials for free access to a Waymaker demo course
for review purposes.
Type your name/email address into the webinar “chat” window,
along with course(s) you’d like to review.
OR: Mention this webinar and send a request to:
info@lumenlearning.com

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Q&A
Questions? Discussion?
Thank you!
Julie Curtis
julie@lumenlearning.com