Steve Ernst, PhD Cecil Banhan Boundless

1. BOUNDLESS
Empowering Faculty and Students With High
Quality Modular Courseware
Open Education Global Conference
April 2016
Steve Ernst, PhD
VP Content and Learning Services
sernst@boundless.com
Cecil Banhan
VP Institutional Sales and Partnerships
cbanhan@boundless.com

2. BOUNDLESS > 2016
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

6. BOUNDLESS > 2016
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

8. BOUNDLESS > 2016 8
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 lead
Continuous
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 again
Peer review
Curate, edit,
structure
900+ unique
sources
Public Domain OER Open Websites
Source content
Multi-stage Process Supports Quality Content
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12. BOUNDLESS > 2016
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

13. BOUNDLESS > 2016
Modular Content Structure
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14. BOUNDLESS > 2016
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

15. BOUNDLESS > 2016
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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18. BOUNDLESS > 2016
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.

19. BOUNDLESS > 2016
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.

20. BOUNDLESS > 2016
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.

21. Demo

22. 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

24. BOUNDLESS
Empowering Faculty and Students With High
Quality Modular Courseware
Open Education Global Conference
April 2016
Steve Ernst, PhD
VP Content and Learning Services
sernst@boundless.com
Cecil Banhan
VP Institutional Sales and Partnerships
cbanhan@boundless.com