empowering faculty and students with high quality modular courseware
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Empowering Faculty and Students With High Quality Modular Courseware
Open Education Global Conference April 2016
Steve Ernst, PhD VP Content and Learning Services [email protected]
Cecil Banhan VP Institutional Sales and Partnerships
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Agenda❖ Textbook Affordability and Students❖ Student Requirements and Behaviors❖ Efficacy Study (2014)❖ Characteristics of Next-generation Digital Publishing❖ Demonstration (Educator and Student Contexts):
• Assignments • Data analytics and dashboard• Grade book
❖ Summary
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Students Cannot Afford Textbooks
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“…a survey released by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund shows that 65% of student consumers have opted out of buying a college textbook due to its high price,
…and of those students, 94% say they suffer academically.”
“Over the past decade, college textbook prices have increased by 82%, or at three times the rate of inflation”
Source: Survey included 2,000 students from 150 campuses
http://uspirg.org/news/usp/survey-shows-students-opting-out-buying-high-cost-textbooks
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Students Cannot Afford Textbooks
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Source: Perry, Mark. AEI Ideas. “The era of the textbook cartel and $300 textbooks is ending.” 2014. Retrieved from:: http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/01/the-era-of-the-textbook-cartel-and-300-textbooks-is-ending-as-the-collegetextbook- bubble-shows-signs-of-deflating/textbooks
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Where Students Find Value in Digital
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Source: Boundless (2014); 647 students surveyed
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Most Desirable Study Locations
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Source: Boundless (2014); 647 students surveyed
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Study Habits
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Source: Boundless (2014); 647 students surveyed
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Boundless: Next-generation Digital Publisher
➡ Highly extensible content structure
➡ Empowers faculty; promotes collaboration
Outcomes-
oriented
Modular &
Affordable
➡ LO as “backbone”
➡ Active learning model
➡ $30 per student per course
Ready to go ➡ 25+ full-length courses
➡ Ready-made courseware (digital textbook, reader, quizzes)
➡ Over 400 qualified SMEs
➡ Rigorous instructional design and editorial practices
Quality
flexible
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Quality Through Community Participation
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Quality Through Community Participation
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100+ contributors
➡ Continuous improvement: community of Boundless users suggest edits to content, reviewed for approval by subject leadContinuous
improvement
12 FTEs➡ Final review: each content module reviewed and approved for
publication by Boundless subject lead (FTE)Final review
400+ freelance
SMEs
➡ Structuring: decisions on taxonomy, depth, breadth guided by academic advisor - PhD / experienced educator in the field
➡ Synthesis: for each module, Boundless SME (contract): • Curates best available source material, editing to create single piece
of cohesive content • Writes bullet point summary, selects and defines key terms • Sources and adds media (images, video, interactive graphs)
➡ Peer review: each module reviewed by another SME on team: • Scores content module on quality rubric • Content scoring below given threshold automatically kicked back for
re-work, passes through peer review stage againPeer review
Curate, edit, structure
900+ unique sources
Public Domain OER Open Websites
Source content
Multi-stage Process Supports Quality Content
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Modular Content Structure
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Learning Objective
Assessment Bank Content
……
Biology
And over 20 more subjects…
Easy for educators to re-arrange across subjects
Modules can be used in multiple courses
Sociology
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Modular Content Structure
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Ready to go: Deploy in weeks, not months
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❖ Low switching costs - map from syllabus in days❖ Full content library is ready to use with students❖ Seamless integration with leading LMS platforms
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Real Time Data and Analytics
❖ Rapid insights for educators and students
❖ Monitor student progress and performance
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Engaging Student Experience
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❖ Interactive content❖ Works across all devices❖ ADA compliant❖ WCAG 2.0
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Affordable
❖ $30 per student per course; enterprise pricing available❖ Student keeps access to content forever - no expiring license❖ Students can purchase directly in the LMS, through
boundless.com or from the university’s bookstore
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Efficacy Study (2014)Experimental Design • 40 students (USA)• Courseware Title: Psychology• Two treatments:
• Boundless digital courseware• eTextbook
• Study Phases:• Studied material• Retention “distractor”• Multiple-choice test (10 questions, 4-answer forced choice)• Post-test survey
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Go Boundless? (2014) A comparison of efficiency, efficacy, and user experience of Boundless versus traditional e-textbooks by Zachary A. Rosner, Ph.D. and Nancy Tsai, M.Ed.
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Efficacy Study (2014)Results — Study Duration and Retention
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Go Boundless? (2014) A comparison of efficiency, efficacy, and user experience of Boundless versus traditional e-textbooks by Zachary A. Rosner, Ph.D. and Nancy Tsai, M.Ed.
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Efficacy Study (2014)Results — Student Satisfaction
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Go Boundless? (2014) A comparison of efficiency, efficacy, and user experience of Boundless versus traditional e-textbooks by Zachary A. Rosner, Ph.D. and Nancy Tsai, M.Ed.
Demo
Questions or comments?
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Boundless: Next-generation Digital Publisher
➡ Highly extensible content structure
➡ Empowers faculty; promotes collaboration
Outcomes-
oriented
Modular &
Affordable
➡ LO as “backbone”
➡ Active learning model
➡ $30 per student per course
Ready to go ➡ 25+ full-length courses
➡ Ready-made courseware (digital textbook, reader, quizzes)
➡ Over 400 qualified SMEs
➡ Rigorous instructional design and editorial practices
Quality
flexible
BOUNDLESS
Empowering Faculty and Students With High Quality Modular Courseware
Open Education Global Conference April 2016
Steve Ernst, PhD VP Content and Learning Services [email protected]
Cecil Banhan VP Institutional Sales and Partnerships