{"id":191,"date":"2018-06-01T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmccoer.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=191"},"modified":"2022-10-28T09:58:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:58:31","slug":"gates-foundation-waymaker-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/uncategorized\/gates-foundation-waymaker-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Gates Foundation Waymaker Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2531\/2018\/05\/icon_small_bill_melinda_gates_foundation_logo.png\" alt=\"Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation logo\" class=\"wp-image-29\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>CUNY&#8217;s Office of Library Services received a grant from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/postsecondary.gatesfoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gates Foundation<\/a>&nbsp;to pilot <a href=\"https:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/what\/waymaker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waymaker<\/a>, Lumen Learning&#8217;s OER and personalized learning courseware, in AY 2017\u201318 as part of a larger 3-year research study to evaluate the impact of this courseware&nbsp;on student success, persistence, and retention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BMCC&nbsp;Psychology faculty applied and were selected to participate&nbsp;in the study and used the Waymaker platform and materials in&nbsp;PSY 100: Introduction to Psychology, with five&nbsp;sections running in fall 2017 and five in fall 2018.&nbsp;Monica Foust and Kelly Rodgers were the lead Psychology faculty members for this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on personalized or adaptive learning, we recommend the Gates Foundation report produced by SRI,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sri.com\/publication\/education-learning-pubs\/digital-learning-pubs\/lessons-learned-from-early-implementations-of-adaptive-courseware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lessons Learned From Early Implementations of Adaptive Courseware<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about BMCC\u2019s participation in a pilot study of Waymaker funded by the Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/oeratbmcc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}