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Purdue’s Board of Trustees approved on Friday (Aug. 2) an agreement with Desire2Learn (D2L) for its product, Brightspace, to become the university’s next systemwide learning management system.
Open source software company Moodle today announced it is ending its partnership with Blackboard.
Blackboard today introduced Blackboard Ally for Web, a solution for assessing and improving the accessibility of institutions' websites. The tool expands on Blackboard's Ally product (launched last year), which focuses on the accessibility of course materials in learning management systems.
Blackboard today rolled out a variety of updates to Blackboard Learn, the company's flagship learning management system.
A recent study by Blackboard examined how learning management system (LMS) use in courses influences student activity in the LMS as a kind of proxy for overall course design.
Blackboard today announced the acquisition of Fronteer, a UK-based educational products and services company whose flagship Ally software helps institutions and instructors make course content more accessible.
It’s not just universities tracking their students and staff. Edutech multinational Blackboard In
Blackboard has unveiled Moodlerooms 3.0, with enhancements designed to improve teaching and learning experiences for teachers, students and administrators.
The expansion into financial services could be part of an effort to redefine Blackboard for a potential sale.
A seasoned instructional designer, shares five online course design suggestions to help make sure your course is clutter-free and easy to use.
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Over the last few years, Blackboard has slowly cobbled together – through both acquisitions and growth – the largest Moodle Partner company. Until today, this partnership was held under…
Via Donna Thompson
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Upon a new LMS implementation over an institution, it’s not unusual to get detailed instructions from academic leadership, instructors, marketing, or other departments, stating they know their users, how to structure the virtual campus and what must be in a particular place of a given template. It could be a headline, a tab, a button, or a whole page structure. They might be right, of course, but Why don’t ask end-users in the first place to -at least- prove your point?
That’s the so-called UX way: putting user’s experience in the center of every decision-making process.
Blackboard has added a live conversation simulation tool to its suite of student support offerings.
Yesterday, I wrote about my experiences at the recent IMS Learning Impact Leadership Institute. Today, I'm going to write about a sentence that I heard uttered several times while at that summit. One
In the wake of news of its split from Moodle, Blackboard has reaffirmed its commitment to its Moodle-based Software-as-a-Service product and the open source community.
Students love to hear good news about how well they're doing in their courses or how their performance — good or bad — compares to other students in the class, according to a research project undertaken by Blackboard's analytics and research team.
Do more than just multiple choice questions, learn more about the 17 question types available in Blackboard Learn 9.1.
Blackboard today released a study on how instructors and students in 70,000 courses across 927 institutions used Blackboard Learn, the company's learning management system. The research found five course patterns or archetypes (below). The majority of the courses fell into the category of content heavy, with low interaction.
Blackboard and Authentica Solutions, a company that provides tools for data authentication and management, have extended a partnership that aims to improve the bi-directional flow of data between Blackboard's learning management systems and other education applications.
This week, during Blackboard's user conference, BbWorld 16, the company is unveiling a pair of products developed with deep input from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC).
The first product, Bb Planner, is a mobile app that allows students to explore degrees and careers that mesh with their goals and interests. Eventually the same app will also enable them to pivot in their degree choices when they realize they're heading in the wrong direction, help them figure out how far along they are in achieving a degree in a new major and even let them sign up for their next course with a single phone tap.
The second product, Blackboard Advise, is a web-based advising tool that pulls in Planner data and adds predictive analytics to help advisers understand a student's intentions and identify at-risk individuals.
Blackboard and IBM have entered a partnership that will see the latter managing the ed tech company's datacenters and cloud infrastructure.
A partnership between Fishtree and Blackboard is bringing the former's personalized learning technology to the Blackboard Learn LMS.
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Unveils Partnership with Uber. Higher Ed Students Now Able to Pay for Uber Rides With Campu
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