Focus on teaching, not on your students’ materials
With BNC OER+ your students start learning on day one. Students gain immediate access to your course (complete with e-text, videos, activities, and assessments) delivered right through your LMS. BNC OER+ lowers the cost of learning materials (and even has an available print companion).
You’ll have the tools you need to track student performance along with the instructor resources you’ve come to expect. Because we are integrated with your campus bookstore, you can be sure that everyone has everything they need—on day one.
Personalize what you want, when you want
Every one of our courses starts with high-quality Open Education Resources (OER), such as OpenStax. But it doesn’t end there. We’ve enriched that content to deliver a holistic course that includes:
- Video examples
- Auto-graded practice quizzes
- Activities
- Homework
- Lecture Slides
- Assessments
- Accessibility Functionality
To save you time we make it easy for you to personalize our complete courses through a simple drag and drop modules to align with your syllabus. This enables you to add, delete, or adapt new content directly in the learning path. And you can use pre-built quizzes or create your own assessments from a full test bank.
Personalize what you want, when you want
Every one of our courses starts with high-quality Open Education Resources (OER), such as OpenStax. But it doesn’t end there. We’ve enriched that content to deliver a holistic course that includes:
- Video examples
- Auto-graded practice quizzes
- Activities
- Homework
- Lecture Slides
- Assessments
- Note taking and highlighting
To save you time we make it easy for you to personalize our complete courses through a simple drag and drop modules to align with your syllabus. This enables you to add, delete, or adapt new content directly in the learning path. And you can use pre-built quizzes or create your own assessments from a full test bank.
A complete support system, from your campus partner
Your course should be an extension of your teaching — not your textbook. That’s why BNED has a team of implementation experts to help personalize your course. We will also partner with your IT department to help ensure single sign-on and first day of class availability. Students are able to purchase your course safely and securely because the campus bookstore is integrated with your financial aid platform. Once classes begin, we will provide live phone and web support for students and faculty.
Real time insights to help students succeed
You and your students will be able to track progress and stay motivated during the semester. Your course content is tied to learning objectives and delivers real time insights (powered by our predictive model) that enable you to reach those students that really need help before it’s too late. Our platform can track the entire student journey so that you have a holistic view of your students’ progress – not just in one course.
Our mission is to empower you with the right insights, at the right moments, to help your students succeed.
Real time insights to help students succeed
You and your students will be able to track progress and stay motivated during the semester. Your course content is tied to learning objectives and delivers real time insights (powered by our predictive model) that enable you to reach those students that really need help before it’s too late. Our platform can track the entire student journey so that you have a holistic view of your students’ progress – not just in one course.
Our mission is to empower you with the right insights, at the right moments, to help your students succeed.
What Faculty and our Partners are saying/
Courses/
What we are Reading/
OER needs more awareness
Faculty members are generally satisfied with quality of open educational resources, according to a new report, even though most instructors still aren’t aware of OER. Nearly two-thirds of the surveyed faculty members, or 65.9 percent, said they had either never heard of OER, or had heard some but didn’t know much about them. Only 5.1 percent of the faculty members said they were very aware of OER.
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/openingthetextbook2016.pdf
Addressing Student Learning Cost and Engagement with OER Courseware
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group found in a recent survey that 65 percent of college students had, at some point, decided against buying a college textbook, and of that group, 94 percent had concerns that the decision would impact their grades.
http://next.bncollege.com/student-learning-cost-with-oer-courseware/
Digital Courseware studies show improvement, most use Courseware in blended and teacher-lead environments
SRI analyzed the features of 137 different courses from 12 major postsecondary courseware-related projects and performed a quantitative meta-analysis of student outcomes to estimate the impact of digital courseware on student learning.
https://www.sri.com/sites/default/files/publications/psexecsummary_1.pdf