{"id":14848,"date":"2017-08-21T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-prealgebra\/chapter\/about-this-course\/"},"modified":"2020-07-28T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:58:33","slug":"about-this-course","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-rockland-developmentalemporium\/chapter\/about-this-course\/","title":{"raw":"About This Course","rendered":"About This Course"},"content":{"raw":"This course is designed to be used as a solution for schools who would like to offer an emporium style course that covers the developmental math series. As a Waymaker course, Developmental Math Emporium provides plenty of structure for students around the process of studying and mastering learning outcomes. It can be implemented as an emporium style lab course, a self-paced online course, or to help determine placement of a student.\u00a0The course includes embedded algorithmically generated practice questions, worked-example videos, and a complete set of outcome aligned online assessments.\r\n\r\nThe primary texts for this course are\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-prealgebra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prealgebra,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/beginalgebra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beginning Algebra,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/intermediatealgebra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Intermediate Algebra<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0by Lumen Learning. Those texts were adapted from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openstax.org\/\">OpenStax<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nroc.org\/\">Monterey Institute of Technology and Education<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ohm.lumenlearning.com\/course\/mathispower4u.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mathispower4u.com<\/a>, and other widely-used OER texts.\r\n\r\nDevelopmental Emporium is also offered as an OHM course with a complete set of assessments.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ohm.lumenlearning.com\/course\/course.php?cid=38776&amp;folder=0&amp;guestaccess=true\">The OHM version can be viewed here<\/a>.\r\n\r\nCourse development was made possible by following key contributors:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Deborah Devlin of\u00a0Frostburg State University in Maryland<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Sarah Enoch of Portland State University<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Amanda Schwallie of\u00a0Xavier University<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h2>About Lumen<\/h2>\r\nLumen Learning\u2019s mission is to make great learning opportunities available to all students, regardless of socioeconomic background.\r\n\r\nWe do this by using open educational resources (OER) to create well-designed and low-cost course materials that replace expensive textbooks. Because learning is about more than affordability and access, we also apply learning science insights and efficacy research to develop learning activities that are engineered to improve subject mastery, course completion and retention.\r\n\r\nIf you\u2019d like to connect with us to learn more about adopting this course, please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a>.\r\n\r\nYou can also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/calendly.com\/lumenlearning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make an appointment<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/office-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OER Office Hours<\/a>\u00a0to connect virtually with a live Lumen expert about any question you may have.","rendered":"<p>This course is designed to be used as a solution for schools who would like to offer an emporium style course that covers the developmental math series. 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