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Lyryx celebrates $15 million in student savings!

Lyryx Learning, a small open educational resources (OER) publisher, has had a big impact on student savings. Calgary, AB (September 7, 2021) In the Fall of 2019 Lyryx Learning celebrated their impact on 100,000 students across the US and Canada since starting as a sustainable OER publisher in 2013. In the two short (yet very long) years since then, another 50,000 students have registered in Lyryx with Open Texts courses. Additional efforts made to extend aid in the wake of Covid-19 led to the social…

The Lyryx Mobile App: Another innovative tool to advance learning.

Lyryx Learning launches mobile app for Linear Algebra, providing students with another format to master content and track progress.  Calgary, AB (9/8/2021) – In the spirit of their tagline, open educational resource publisher/ edtech provider, Lyryx Learning, has launched their next innovation toward “advancing learning.” The company has always prioritized formative assessment as the pedagogical backbone of their online assessment…

OER Publisher Helps Lessen Financial Stress for Higher Education Students

– Calgary, AB (January 14, 2021) Lyryx finds yet another way to make higher education accessible to students with the Janet Bailey Memorial Fund. Following the unprecedented circumstances of 2020, people across the globe have fallen on hard times. This includes the realm of higher education, where many students are also facing extensive financial hardship.…

Upcoming webinar: Lyryx has your online assessment (exam) solution for Fall 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]- Calgary, AB (July 30, 2020) It is no secret that life in the age of Covid-19 has been challenging, but it has also inspired immense innovation and cooperation. Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus and the subsequent mass movement to online delivery, many instructors have been faced with the daunting task of coordinating and…

Lyryx Learning provides FREE access to online homework for hundreds of students in the wake of Covid-19.

Improving accessibility amid Covid-19 campus closures. Calgary, AB (April 4, 2020) Amid the unprecedented uncertainty and disruption resulting from the global Coronavirus pandemic, Lyryx has provided free access to our online homework for over 750 post-secondary students studying in quarantine throughout Canada and the United States. Lyryx prides itself on finding innovative ways to make…

The 2020 OER Champion Campaign Winner

Calgary, AB (March 10, 2020) On March 10, 2020, Lyryx announced its second OER Champion of the year; Anna Vershynina of the University of Houston. Because of Anna’s commitment to making education accessible and employing OER in her courses, the Department of Mathematics at UH will receive an award of $1,500 to further OER practice.…

Lyryx Joins BCcampus Open Textbook Collection

Calgary, AB (April 4, 2017) The Lyryx with Open Texts collection is now available through the BCcampus repositories to be shared openly with Instructors globally. BCcampus is recognized as a leader of Open Educational Resource development in Canada and worldwide. The BC Open Textbook Collection now holds over 180 open textbooks in 8 main and…

Open Education Week 2017 Webinar

Adopting a new textbook, whether open or traditional is a process – but the question you have to ask is: does the reward outweigh the challenge? In the webinar we will be discussing the challenges that Instructors face when adopting an open text and addressing how to overcome those challenges with ease. Presenter: Tamsyn Murnaghan…

Lyryx Recognized for Excellence in OER

Calgary, AB (March 6, 2017) Lyryx Learning has received an honorable mention as part of the 2017 OE Awards with the Open Education Consortium.  This honorable mention is in recognition of our strengths and initiatives with Open Textbooks. In response to this recognition Lyryx wants to bring further awareness to the importance of open educational…

TEXTBOOKS OUT – OPEN TEXTS IN

Calgary, AB (January 19, 2017) – Yesterday Bloomberg reported that Pearson Plc, an education publishing company, had a decrease of 30% in Q4 for their higher education material in the United States. This may indicate that students are recognizing alternatives to the traditional printed textbook. Over the past ten years, prices on textbooks have risen…