Lumen Learning / OpenStax Partnership

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I’m SUPER excited today to announce a new partnership between OpenStax College, which makes great open textbooks, and Lumen Learning, which provides a wide range of services to institutions that want help adopting OER successfully and sustainably. For all the details, check the full announcement. Lumen also released a new video today that explains what … Read more

Automatically Geocoding Higher Ed Institutions Using the Google Maps API and Google Spreadsheets

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I recently needed to quickly create a map of higher education institutions Lumen is working with, and consequently needed LAT and LONG info for dozens of schools. Rather than do that all by hand, I created this little recipe for automatically retrieving coordinates given a school’s name using the Google Maps API and Google Spreadsheets. … Read more

Taking a Leap of Faith

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Exactly a year ago today I published a post about some exciting changes in my professional life. I had just applied for a 12-month unpaid leave of absence from BYU. My goal was to spend the time away focused on supporting and scaling the adoption of open educational resources (OER) in formal education. Specifically, I … Read more