The partnership SUNY OER Services has with Lumen Learning offers SUNY faculty more than the opportunity to trade a traditionally published textbook for an openly licensed textbook. By combining high-quality open educational resources with courseware focused on student learning and success, students benefit from an individualized learning experience that is freely available to them on day one.

Waymaker courses help students become better learners with personalized study plans, frequent practice, and learning by doing. Waymaker’s personalized learning courseware are designed using OER and incorporates simple-to-use instructor tools making it easier to identify and help struggling students. Based on part on feedback from SUNY faculty, Lumen has recently added further customization tools for faculty, allowing for a higher level of personalization. Available for over twenty courses, popular Waymaker courses among SUNY faculty include Principles of Management, Concepts in Statistics, Biology, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Introduction to Psychology, and Introduction to Sociology. Participants are encouraged to visit oer.suny.edu to view the full list of Waymaker courses.

Online Homework Manager (OHM) is a flexible online homework engine for math and quantitative courses. OHM includes OER textbooks and videos, algorithmically-generated assessments, machine grading, and immediate feedback for students. Faculty can easily create and customize a ready-to-adopt OER course. Popular subjects include Beginning/Intermediate Algebra, College Algebra, Precalculus, Introduction to Statistics, Math for Liberal Arts and Chemistry. See a complete list of available OHM courses at oer.suny.edu

This pre-conference session will provide hands-on demonstrations, offer participants ready-to-adopt OER course materials for use in their LMS, and share pedagogical best practices. By the end of the workshop, participants will have the knowledge, skills, to use the Waymaker or OHM course in hand!

Co-led by members of the SUNY OER Services team and staff from Lumen Learning, this pre-conference session is designed for the spectrum of learners from those new to OER and exploring options to faculty who are ready to adopt OER-enabled courseware