{"id":23,"date":"2024-09-06T16:45:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/financialaccounting\/chapter\/coming-soon-about-these-course-materials\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T16:45:41","slug":"coming-soon-about-these-course-materials","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/content.one.lumenlearning.com\/financialaccounting\/chapter\/coming-soon-about-these-course-materials\/","title":{"raw":"About This Course","rendered":"About This Course"},"content":{"raw":"\nIn Financial Accounting, students learn the basic accounting principles, preparing them for a career in business or as the first course in their preparation to become an accountant.\n\nThis course starts out teaching with a focus on small, sole-proprietorships providing a service, and gradually layers accounting practices from the most basic to the more complex accounting practices recommended for large companies. This course also includes an optional module focusing on \"personal accounting,\" which helps students bridge the gap between accounting for their personal finances and accounting for business.\n<h2>Course Improvements<\/h2>\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.\n<h2>Contributors<\/h2>\nThis course was developed by Lumen Learning with significant contributions by:\n\n<strong>Primary Content Authors<\/strong>\nJoe Cooke, Santa Fe Community College\nMike Zerrahn, Clinton Community College (SUNY)\nCindy Moore, Ranger College\nRobert Danielson, Saint Mary\u2019s College of California\nDebra Porter, Tidewater Community College\nPamela Pirog, Housatonic Community College\n\nTyler Alonso, student at The College of New Jersey\n<h2>About Lumen<\/h2>\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).\n\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.\n\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.\n\nIf you\u2019d like to connect with us to learn more about adopting this course, please <a href=\"http:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/contact\/\">Contact Us<\/a>.\n\nYou can also <a href=\"https:\/\/calendly.com\/lumenlearning\/\">make an appointment<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/office-hours\">OER Office Hours<\/a> to connect virtually with a live Lumen expert about any question you may have.\n","rendered":"<p>In Financial Accounting, students learn the basic accounting principles, preparing them for a career in business or as the first course in their preparation to become an accountant.<\/p>\n<p>This course starts out teaching with a focus on small, sole-proprietorships providing a service, and gradually layers accounting practices from the most basic to the more complex accounting practices recommended for large companies. 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