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Disrupting Higher Education and Embracing AI at Lumen Learning
In this insightful episode of The Innovators & Investors Podcast, host Kristian Marquez sits down with Kim Thanos, founder and CEO of Lumen Learning—a pioneering company transforming higher education by providing affordable, digital textbook alternatives aimed at increasing student success in critical gateway courses. Kim shares the origin story of Lumen Learning, detailing how a grant from the Gates Foundation inspired a mission to help at-risk students overcome costly textbook barriers by leveraging openly licensed materials. Listeners will gain valuable perspectives on how Lumen has…
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