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About Our Founder
For 25 years I’ve worked in scholarly publishing for academic libraries. We launched amazing databases with our partners--video from the National Theatre, underground comics, declassified documents from the Guatemalan Civil War—content faculty would love to use in the classroom (and costs students nothing). But they were rarely aware of it. At conferences, faculty would say, “Wow, I wish I had access to that!” Then we’d discover they already had it in their library.
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Some of the most affordable and highest-quality learning materials don't float to the top of Google results, leaving students with expensive curriculum and content creators with limited impact. I founded West End Learning to help improve the reach of these resources in order to make learning more affordable, engaging, and inclusive.
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Andrea Eastman-Mullins
Founder & CEO, West End Learning
MA, Higher Education
University of Michigan
Partners
We are driven by supporting faculty and librarians on the front lines of improving learning. We have learned from conversations with over 100 educators from a variety of campuses. Thanks in particular to our early partners whose collaboration ensured we addressed real-world teaching needs.
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About Our Founder
For 25 years I’ve worked in scholarly publishing for academic libraries. We launched amazing databases with our partners--video from the National Theatre, underground comics, declassified documents from the Guatemalan Civil War—content faculty would love to use in the classroom (and costs students nothing). But they were rarely aware of it. At conferences, faculty would say, “Wow, I wish I had access to that!” Then we’d discover they already had it in their library.
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Some of the most affordable and highest-quality learning materials don't float to the top of Google results, leaving students with expensive curriculum and content creators with limited impact. I founded West End Learning to help improve the reach of these resources in order to make learning more affordable, engaging, and inclusive.
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Andrea Eastman-Mullins
Founder & CEO, West End Learning
MA, Higher Education
University of Michigan
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We are driven by supporting faculty and librarians on the front lines of improving learning. We have learned from conversations with over 100 educators from a variety of campuses. Thanks in particular to our early partners whose collaboration ensured we addressed real-world teaching needs.
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Discover what you're missing.
West End Learning will quickly connect your course to vetted, high-quality videos, articles, podcasts, group activities, and more to supplement or replace your commercial textbook. These digital resources, available at no cost to students, may just be the best learning content you aren't using... yet.
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Save time hunting for the “right” content
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Teach in your own voice
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Reflect the learning needs of your students
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Trust materials selected by discipline experts
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Make better use of association and nonprofit resources
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entrepreneurship into your classroom.
Get access to diverse OER content - from the real world - that’s been vetted by entrepreneurship experts in a snap.
Syllect offers a thoughtfully-curated collection of over 2,500 open teaching materials, allowing you to enhance your syllabus at no cost to your students.
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What We Do
West End Learning is dedicated to improving access to quality education.
We develop digital curriculum and provide other custom services to colleges, faculty, and nonprofits.
Working with educators inspired us to launch Syllect, a new platform helping faculty share and adopt open teaching resources.
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Make a broader impact with the teaching resources and techniques you've developed.
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Faculty look to their peers first for ideas. Do you have something to recommend?
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We are seeking experienced teaching faculty who want to publish their activities, syllabi, assignments, and more to support others in the field.
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About Our Founder
From the Founder, Andrea Eastman-Mullins:
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For 25 years I’ve worked in academic library publishing, launching amazing databases with archives and content partners—video from the National Theatre, underground comics, declassified documents from the Guatemalan Civil War—content faculty would love to use in the classroom. But they rarely found it. At conferences, faculty would say, “Wow, I wish I had access to that!” Then we’d discover they already had it in their library. Some of the best content was never found.
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At the same time, I saw faculty moving away from commercial textbooks to save students money or free themselves to teach differently. But they struggled to find time to evaluate all the learning material that pops up in YouTube, Google, or a library search. I wanted to see for myself what faculty experienced, so I partnered with Salem College to help ten faculty redesign courses to use open resources. Sifting through broken links and outdated content, it took me hours to find quality resources for just one learning objective in a syllabus. And I have a background in software, libraries, publishing, and instructional design! We must make this easier.
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Libraries are championing the use of affordable and open educational resources (OER), and they need help to support more faculty. There is impressive open material out there from scholars, associations, museums, and libraries waiting to be discovered. I founded West End Learning to help faculty find those resources more easily to make their courses more affordable, engaging, and inclusive.
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See our blog to learn more about us and follow inspirational stories of college teaching through our Office Hours series.
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