{"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":"2021-12-14T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T18:10:07","slug":"about-this-course","status":"web-only","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-prealgebra\/chapter\/about-this-course\/","title":{"raw":"About This Course","rendered":"About This Course"},"content":{"raw":"<p align=\"left\">This course provides an interactive exploration of Prealgebra topics, laying a firm groundwork for success in subsequent math courses. \u00a0With embedded algorithmically generated practice and videos, the text is a great resource for active learning in and out of the classroom. \u00a0Content coverage includes whole numbers, algebraic notation, integers, fractions, decimals, percents, real numbers, multi-step linear equations, polynomials, geometry, and graphs.<\/p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">This course offers a set of resources including links to the text, videos, and online assessments.<\/p>\r\n<p align=\"left\">The primary sources include OpenStax\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openstax.org\/details\/books\/prealgebra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prealgebra<\/a>\u00a0text and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathispower4u.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mathispower4u.com<\/a>\u00a0videos by James Sousa.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Course Improvements<\/h2>\r\nWe believe in making continuous improvements to our courses in order to enhance and facilitate student learning. This newest version of the course includes a vast number of data-driven improvements to assessment questions and text content in order to better illustrate, clarify, and evaluate concepts.\r\n<h2>About Lumen<\/h2>\r\nLumen Learning courseware is based on open educational resources (OER). When we can find well designed, effective OER that are appropriately licensed, we use them in our courseware. When we can\u2019t find pre-existing OER, we create original content and license it as OER (under a Creative Commons Attribution license).\r\n\r\nLumen\u2019s authoring process doesn\u2019t end when our courseware is released. Our choice to adopt open educational resources means that we have the copyright permissions necessary to engage in continuous improvement of our learning content. Consequently, our courses are continually being revised and updated. Errata reported for our courseware are fixed in a matter of days, as opposed to the traditional model in which errors persist until the next \u201cedition\u201d is printed (often a year or more). Students and faculty can suggest improvements to our courses directly from within the courseware as they use it. And we conduct regular analyses to determine where students are struggling the most in our courseware, and make improvements that specifically target these areas.\r\n\r\nGiven our unique approach, our list of authors and other contributors may look different than the lists you are used to seeing. We provide both a list of the primary content authors (the people involved in the initial creation of the course) and a list of everyone who has contributed suggestions and other improvements to the course since it was first released. We invite you to join us as we create courseware that supports student learning more effectively each semester.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 1rem; text-align: initial;\">If you\u2019d like to connect with us to learn more about adopting this course, please\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem; text-align: initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; text-align: initial;\">.<\/span>\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 style=\"text-align: left;\">This course provides an interactive exploration of Prealgebra topics, laying a firm groundwork for success in subsequent math courses. \u00a0With embedded algorithmically generated practice and videos, the text is a great resource for active learning in and out of the classroom. \u00a0Content coverage includes whole numbers, algebraic notation, integers, fractions, decimals, percents, real numbers, multi-step linear equations, polynomials, geometry, and graphs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course offers a set of resources including links to the text, videos, and online assessments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The primary sources include OpenStax\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/openstax.org\/details\/books\/prealgebra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prealgebra<\/a>\u00a0text and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathispower4u.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mathispower4u.com<\/a>\u00a0videos by James Sousa.<\/p>\n<h2>Course Improvements<\/h2>\n<p>We believe in making continuous improvements to our courses in order to enhance and facilitate student learning. 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