Digital Academics

Very low level of development of learning assets specifically for mobile devices.

Just-in-time knowledge: Short bursts of information and learning assets that can be consumed anywhere in just a few minutes.

Moderate to high levels of technology frustration in making learning assets fully viewable and optimized on devices — Flash on an iPad, for example.

make sure your learning technology platform can launch a mobile course.

You want to spur the adoption of mobile learning. So direct users to a course that’s only available in a mobile format. Make the course easy to access. 

The goal is delivering a lot of instructional value in a small package.

Research by the U.S. Department of Education shows that students in online learning environments perform modestly better, on average, than those learning the same material through traditional face-to-face instruction, and that blending online and face-to-face instruction increases that advantage.

As of now, of the students using Boundless at more than 2,000 campuses, 95 percent said they were able to achieve the grade they wanted—or better—and 88 percent said they would use Boundless again.