Modular Content

Boundless courseware is comprised of individual modules, each with a three-part structure: a learning objective, supporting digital content, and a set of assessment items.

Learning Objective

Explain the benefits of Boundless' modular three-part content structure

Key Points

Each Boundless content module follows the same three-part structure: a learning objective, supporting content, and a set of assessment items.
A learning objective is the expectation a student should be able to fulfill after reading the supporting text.
The supporting content, including any embedded multimedia and interactives, provides the necessary information for a student to be able to achieve the learning objective.
Assessment items test a student's mastery of the learning objective.

Full Text

Boundless content is highly customizable—an educator can use just the parts of a Boundless textbook that are relevant to their course, in just the order they want.

For this customizability to be possible, Boundless content is made up of bite-sized, standalone content modules called concepts. Each content module is organized in a three-part structure: the learning objective, the supporting text, media, and interactives, and the assessment items.

Learning Objectives

Each Boundless content module revolves around a single learning objective, a single sentence describing a concrete, achievable goal, beginning with an action verb.

Example Boundless learning objective

The learning objective is the core of any given content module. It outlines the expectation that a student should be able to fulfill after reading the supporting text and thus helps to frame the rest of the three-part content module.

Supporting Material

The supporting text and media elements of the three-part Boundless content module is more like the traditional "textbook" material you might think of. The supporting material includes the explanation and examples required for a student to be able to achieve the associated learning objective. The supporting text is usually about 500 words long, and includes media, videos, and other interactives.

Example Boundless text content

Because Boundless is a digital platform, the supporting text can also include embedded multimedia (images, videos) and interactives.

Example embedded image within Boundless content

Assessment Items

Each concept has assessment items associated with it that test its learning objective. The questions are aligned to the depth of knowledge required to achieve the learning objective, so that a conceptually deeper learning objective would have more questions associated with it to test the wider span of comprehension levels involved.

Example Boundless assessment item

An assessment item on Boundless can be a multiple-choice question, a drag-and-drop interactive, an interactive image, or one of many other options.

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