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Location: United States, Oregon, Portland
Total raised: $6.2M
Investors 3
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 17.04.2017 | - | $3.7M | - |
| 01.04.2015 | - | $2.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description |
| 01.11.2022 | Lumen Learning and InScribe Partner to Advance Student Support and Engagement Opportunities | InScribe Logo "We've long admired Lumen Learning and the work it is doing to create high quality, affordable options for faculty and students. We are excited to partner with the Lumen team to help extend their vision for interactive, c... |
| 11.07.2022 | Course Hero Quietly Took Over Hosting Lumen’s OER Content. They Say It’s No Big Deal | Clicking onto their favorite courses at the end of May, educators found that they were getting redirected somewhere else. They were trying to prep summer courses by linking to the freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open... |
| 09.06.2020 | How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education | This story was published in partnership with The Moonshot Catalog. In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you ... |
| 31.01.2020 | GeekWire 200 update reveals trending startups in edtech, consumer tech, B.C. and more | There’s a growing cohort of education tech companies across the Pacific Northwest. A flurry of up-and-coming startups are sprouting up in British Columbia. And while Seattle is an enterprise software town, some of the nation’s leading consu... |
| 20.04.2017 | Lumen Scores $3.75M — and OER Gets a Foot in the Traditional Publishing Door | Open Educational Resources (OER) have yet to cozy up with the more orthodox academics and pushy print publishers of the world. Advocates praise their accessible low-prices and ability to meet students on digital devices. But skeptics hold t... |
| 18.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, April 18 | ET CETERA Unicorn Watch: Houzz, an online platform for home remodeling and design services, is in the market raising a large new round of venture funding that could value the company at more than $5 billion, several sources familiar with th... |
| 17.04.2017 | Open educational courseware startup Lumen Learning lands $3.7M and inks deal with Follett | Lumen Learning CEO Kim Thanos. (Lumen Learning Photo) Portland-based Lumen Learning today announced a $3.75 million Series A investment round and a new partnership with Follett to expand the distribution of its open digital education course... |
| 09.08.2016 | Open Educational Practice: Unleashing the Potential of OER | It’s been a good year for open educational resources (OER). Nearly 40 community colleges throughout the U.S. made commitments this year to establish entire degree programs based solely on OER. Governor Jerry Brown set aside $5 million for O... |
| 24.06.2016 | TCC Takes Z-Degrees to the Next Level With Adaptive Learning | When students at Virginia’s Tidewater Community College (TCC) earn their Associate of Science in Business Administration, chances are, they will never have purchased a single textbook. Thanks to the school’s Z-degree program—for zero dollar... |
| 29.01.2016 | What Does ‘Open’ Really Mean? | Editor’s note: This post was first published on Wiley’s blog in response to an EdSurge story. Yesterday EdSurge published an opinion piece by Stephen Laster, the Chief Digital Officer at McGraw-Hill Education, titled The Future of Education... |
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