--- title: Numbers Are Our Friends description: This past week I have been thinking about LERN benchmarks – open enrollment course programming, marketing, contract sales, and operations. image: https://blog.lern.com/hubfs/5DE29A41B7A1BC865ADE42A7842D956E2338DA088BEA478D72pimgpsh_fullsize_distr.png --- [LERN Club Sign-In](http://beta.lern.org/club/) [![lern-logo.png](https://blog.lern.com/hubfs/June-folder/lern-logo.png "lern-logo.png")](http://lern.org) ** # Articles # Numbers Are Our Friends Thu, Mar 31,2016 @ 01:13 PM by Greg Marsello | ![5DE29A41B7A1BC865ADE42A7842D956E2338DA088BEA478D72pimgpsh_fullsize_distr.png](https://blog.lern.com/hs-fs/hubfs/5DE29A41B7A1BC865ADE42A7842D956E2338DA088BEA478D72pimgpsh_fullsize_distr.png?width=320&name=5DE29A41B7A1BC865ADE42A7842D956E2338DA088BEA478D72pimgpsh_fullsize_distr.png "5DE29A41B7A1BC865ADE42A7842D956E2338DA088BEA478D72pimgpsh_fullsize_distr.png")This past week I have been thinking about LERN benchmarks – open enrollment course programming, marketing, contract sales, and operations. My matrix has included colleges, universities, parks and recreation departments, and public schools. The similarities and differences are fun to analyze. Over the next month, I plan on formalizing and then matching up with the numbers being generated by the LERN Dashboard.       ### LATEST NEWS Video: How to Get the Most From a LERN Membership LERN Video - The LERN Program Review: Position Your Unit for Success LERN Cancellation Rates and New Programs: A Lesson From Netflix Kathryn Lynch-Morin Ready for Liftoff: Drones and Drone Courses are More Popular Than Ever Kathryn Lynch-Morin Working with the University of Nebraska - Omaha LERN [Tweets by @LernUpdates](https://twitter.com/LernUpdates) [LERN Club Sign-In](http://beta.lern.org/club/)