Introduction
We’re so glad that you’re working to expand the wide world of OER algebra materials. As you know, algebra is a very rewarding subject to teach, as it can be approached in many ways. This variety means that although many OER materials already exist for algebra, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution in place. Even if you find a template course you admire, you’re likely to need to do at least some customization to fit your school, your program, and your students.
Let’s Talk!
We invite you to participate in the collaboration and wisdom-sharing of the OER community, through Lumen Community Slack. Slack is a free, easy-to-use tool for communication and collaboration. It offers channels for group conversations on specific topics, including a “Math” channel. You can also send direct messages to individuals or groups. Use it from any computer or mobile device.
Resources: Lumen Algebra Courses
Lumen offers several template courses that can serve as starting points for your own development. You can mix, match, and adapt anything from the courses below quite easily.
Lumen’s math courses use MyOpenMath (MOM), an online homework system that provides algorithmically-generated problems and immediate feedback to help students practice and master math concepts.
To preview Lumen-supported math courses created with MOM, you may click on the course links below. When you are prompted to enter login credentials for MOM courses, please use guest as the username, and no password is required.
Algebra Courses with Editable Texts
The Algebra courses in this list have texts that are easily edited.
Editable Text |
Resources Included |
Description |
| Elementary / Beginning Algebra – Lumen Learning – Pressbooks | In-text video support,auto-graded Pre-tests, problems sets, and Quizzes for each module | |
| Beginning and Intermediate Algebra – Tyler Wallace – Texmacs | Student solutions , Full course in MOM, video supplements, online homework | |
| Intermediate Algebra – Lumen Learning – Pressbooks | In-text video support,auto-graded Pre-tests, problems sets, and Quizzes for each module |
Algebra Courses with Static PDF Texts
The Algebra courses in this list are based on a text that is a pdf, and is therefore not easy to edit.
Pdf Text |
Resources Included |
Description |
| Arithmetic – NROC/ Lippman | Full course in MOM, In-Class worksheets, online homework, video support. HW assignments available upon course copy. | This course is an arithmetic course intended for college students, covering whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, ratios and proportions, geometry, measurement, statistics, and integers using an integrated geometry and statistics approach. The course uses the late integers (negative numbers) model—integers are only introduced at the end of the course. |
| Beginning Algebra – Scottsdale NO TEXT | Workbook, Full MOM course, video support, online homework | |
| Beginning and Intermediate Algebra – Tyler Wallace | Student solutions , Full course in MOM, video supplements, online homework | This course is a Lumen Learning Open Course Framework  , based on Tyler Wallace’s courses created for the Open Course Library project. The original, modular-structured course is also available. This remix has been restructured to align more directly with the text, and may be a better choice for face-to-face courses. Details of the intended use can be found in the sample syllabus. |
| Intermediate Algebra – CK-12 Scottsdale | Full course in MOM, video supplements, in-class worksheets,online homework | CC-BY-NC-SA |
ATD Information
This section provides support for faculty and course developers involved with the Achieving the Dream OER Degree Initiative.
Collaboration Meetings
Lumen is hosting Collaboration meetings to help bring faculty together as they work on developing their courses. Contact info@lumenlearning.com about the timing for the next Collaboration meeting in this subject area. Meetings are hosted in Uberconference. The meeting can be found at https://www.uberconference.com/alyson8 or you can call in at 1-503-715-2599. You will benefit more from the collaboration if you join from your computer, but it is not required. No PIN is needed to join the call.
