Barnes & Noble Education Announces Expanded Library of Digital Courseware in Criminal Justice
16 Mai 2019 - 4:46PM
Business Wire
Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE: BNED), a
leading provider of educational products and services solutions for
higher education and K-12 institutions, today announced it has
expanded its library of BNC OER+ digital courseware to include 10
criminal justice courses.
Access to affordable learning materials remains a significant
barrier to student engagement in higher education. While
instructors in many academic disciplines have begun to adopt lower
cost materials to support student affordability, criminal justice
professors have had fewer high-quality, low-cost options available
in their discipline, making these materials more difficult to
adopt.
Priced at $25 per student, BNC OER+, formerly known as LoudCloud
Courseware, blends open educational resources (“OER”) and
originally authored content with a full range of ancillary
materials, such as auto-graded practice problems, summative exams
and homework activities. The courseware is highly customizable,
empowering faculty to easily personalize their course material.
Powered with analytics, the platform also provides integrated
insights, enabling both students and their faculty to monitor
performance and improve learning outcomes.
“In talking with various faculty members, we recognized an
increased need for more low-cost, customizable content in the
criminal justice discipline, and felt it was important to expand
our library of courseware content to further drive affordability,
accessibility and achievement for these students and faculty,” said
Sesha Bolisetty, Head of Content Operations, BNED. “We look forward
to partnering with additional faculty members in the coming
semesters to deliver these engaging digital courses in the criminal
justice field.”
According to a recent BNC OER+ user survey, more than 90 percent
of students found the courseware content to be helpful in
understanding the subject matter better. More than 85 percent of
students felt the courseware platform interface was easy to
use.
BNC OER+ has been well-received among faculty members leveraging
the criminal justice material for their courses. Feedback
includes:
- “I have utilized the BNC OER+ platform
at Penn State Beaver for two semesters. My students have found
the platform easy to access, engaging, and they love the
affordability. They particularly enjoy the videos directly
linked to their readings. As a professor, I am excited that I
can tailor the material to my lectures and state specific
laws, issues, and current events while having a strong
foundation already established in the platform. This provides
me the opportunity to increase engagement and, ultimately,
retention.” – Jodi Ann Gill, Criminal Justice Instructor, Penn
State Beaver
- "The Juvenile Delinquency course was
developed by a team of experts who are actively teaching the
subject and know firsthand the complexity of its themes in both the
classroom and online settings. The course's design is
student-centered, explaining the factors that contribute to
juvenile delinquency and the process that juveniles face once in
the juvenile justice system, in a clear and concise way. The course
also includes thought-provoking learning resources such as videos,
discussion questions and assignments to help instructors meet the
learning objectives of the course. This course is a great platform
for both instructors and administrators looking to update their
Criminal Justice courses offered at their institution." – Glenda
Torrealba, MCJ, Hillsborough Community College & Ana G. Mendez
University
- “Being able to rely on a rich set of
course materials to use as a starting point is tremendously
helpful, especially for professors who are teaching a new topic for
the first time or who teach a topic only occasionally. The Homeland
Security course is a good example. It provides a baseline package
that our adjuncts can ‘grab and go fast.’ It also helps ensure that
the course is consistent from semester to semester, and that it
delivers the essential prerequisite baseline knowledge that is
important for our more advanced courses. No matter who is teaching
the course, we know the content will be right. BNED's courses
contain rich material that is relevant, visually appealing and easy
to use.” — Dr. Daniel T. Murphy, Massachusetts Maritime
Academy
- “Introduction to Criminal Law provides
an excellent foundation for anyone interested in examining the
topic. The reader is provided with the historical building blocks
of criminal law and a tour through its development in the United
States. Most importantly, the text provides an understanding of how
individual criminal statutes are created, interpreted and applied.
As a practitioner as well as an academic, I believe a student of
criminal justice needs to understand how the criminal laws are
actually applied by law enforcement and our federal and state
courts. This text offers a balance between the theoretical approach
and ‘real world’ impact of criminal law.” — Roger Wright, Professor
Emeritus, University of Cincinnati Criminal Justice
BNC OER+ criminal justice course offerings include:
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Criminal Investigation
- Homeland Security
- Victimology
- Police Function
- Criminal Procedure
- Introduction to Criminal Law
- Criminology
- Correction Institutions
- Juvenile Delinquency
All courses are available now for immediate use and class
adoptions.
To learn more about BNC OER+ or to request a demo, visit:
www.bncoerplus.com or contact Courseware@bnedloudcloud.com.
ABOUT BARNES & NOBLE EDUCATION, INC.
Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE: BNED) is a
leading provider of higher education and K-12 educational products
and solutions. Through its Barnes & Noble College and MBS
Textbook Exchange segments, Barnes & Noble Education operates
1,453 physical and virtual bookstores across the U.S., serving more
than 6 million students and faculty. Through its Digital Student
Solutions segment, the Company offers direct-to-student products
and services that help students study more effectively and improve
academic performance, enabling them to gain the valuable skills
necessary to succeed after college. The Company also operates one
of the largest textbook wholesale distribution channels in the
United States. For more information please visit www.bned.com.
BNED companies include: Barnes & Noble College Booksellers,
LLC, MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC, BNED LoudCloud, LLC, Student
Brands, LLC, Promoversity, LLC, and PaperRater, LLC. General
information on Barnes & Noble Education may be obtained by
visiting the Company's corporate website: www.bned.com.
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Media:Barnes & Noble EducationCarolyn J.
BrownSenior Vice PresidentCorporate Communications & Public
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