Featured countryQuick Take: France is known for welcoming international students to their high standard universities and Grandes Écoles. Now, the government is investing more each year in order to continue providing a remarkable educational experience for French students as well.
Customer snapshotMiddlesbrough, England, United Kingdom Through a strategic focus on future facing learning, Teesside University, in the United Kingdom, develops students practical skills to enter the workforce. How do they enhance online teaching to create competitive advantages for post-university work life?…
RoundtablesQuick take: Does your institution teach all students? Promoting accessibility in digital environments, ensuring all course interactions and online teaching are accessible to learners of all abilities, is the next big challenge for educational institutions in order to offer equal opportunities.
ColumnQuick take: Have you ever asked yourself why international students may reproduce test answers word by word? Perhaps they’ve been encouraged to do so throughout their academic lives. Learn about distinct learning styles and find out how to teach students more effectively.
InterviewsQuick take: Having conversations with students about academic integrity may be the best way to approach the topic in the classroom. In a collaborative and globalized world, with endless information available, digital literacy is a key ability to be learnt.
ResearchQuick take: Can an idea really be owned? Looking at how authorship is perceived across different cultures and generations can help us reflect about our own views, and create more effective ways to teach students about academic integrity and proper citation.
RoundtablesQuick take: With proper tools and data analysis, Rutgers University and California State University are fighting academic violations such as plagiarism.
InfographicsQuick take: The reasons why students plagiarize are often unknown by teachers. By understanding cultural differences, it’s possible to create helpful prevention strategies.
Customer snapshotCorpus Christi, Texas, United States Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi known as the “Island University” is located in South Texas near the Gulf of Mexico. It is home for 12,202 students who receive a quality education while enjoying white-sand beaches. Most…
Customer snapshotSantiago de Chile, Chile For universities worldwide, the quality of education offered to their students is a main priority. This is why, with each new technology that becomes available to simplify learning processes, great opportunities for improvement open up for institutions. Adopting technology effectively often means casting aside traditional, analogue teaching methods, and gradually implementing new tools…
EventsBogotá, Colombia Inclusive education is a topic that has been addressed mostly in recent years worldwide, and in particular in Colombia, and has gained momentum due to its importance and necessity. According to UNESCO, education is a fundamental right, and…
Interviews“I attribute my love for accessibility to my parents. My parents were both deaf and they were both educators. They both taught in middle and high school at the Missouri School for the Deaf. Interestingly enough, they also impacted other…
InterviewsLucy Greco: “I am blind and visually impaired, I have been since birth. And very early on, I discovered how much more I could do using assistive technologies. When I was in grade school, I was given access to a…
InterviewsQuick Take: With this teaching model that puts students at the core of the learning process, students can decide whether they want a face-to-face, online or mixed model to strengthen their learning.
InterviewsQuick Take: This network of universities allows the institutions to communicate with each other, as well as to access and contribute with academic resources that can later be adapted to each local market.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: In a country with a predominantly rural population, even adults who had previously abandoned their studies found a chance to continue to pursue a career thanks to distance education.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: Digital identity is understood as the trace each user leaves in the virtual world, and this university aims to inform its students on the repercussions this may have on their working future.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: The use of community participation tools will enable the offer of face-to-face and online classes in not just one, but in multiple institutions at once.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: Few universities teach their students basic abilities for their future career, such as how to find a job before graduating. Thus, these abilities become purely empirical knowledge.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: Tele-presence makes it possible to have a class with all the benefits of distance and face-to-face teaching, all at the same time.
InterviewsQuick Take: Students’ success depends on many factors, including a good teacher-student relationship, suitable technologies and curricular design. The proper combination of all factors leads to a better alignment of students’ goals and institutions’ methodologies.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: “Project Passion” provides students with laboratory experiences and a guide with wide online support, which allows them to develop their own structure and approach more efficiently.
InterviewsQuick Take: Jonathan Bergmann is a Pioneer in the flipped classroom model, which aims to ‘flip’ the classroom dynamic by turning students into active participants and teachers into observers and guides.
InterviewsQuick Take: Dr. Jill Biden explains the importance of community colleges as an engine of American economy and as a source of improvement for US citizens’ skills.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: Using online resources allowed this South African university to continue its classes in spite of the massive student protests in the country. Thus, technology provided a solution to this social issue that would otherwise hinder students’ academic development.
EventsQuick Take: Blackoard’s first Hackboard is aimed to stimulate participants’ creativity, as well as to promote collaborative and open work for LMS development.
Customer snapshotQuick Take: The use of learning technologies, such as an online instructor, allows to optimize teacher-student communication and create a perfect space for online participation and interaction.
ReviewsPortland, Oregon, United States There are more than 15 Laureate International Universities campuses across Europe, imparting courses in 8 languages. This can pose numerous challenges when running and maintaining an LMS within different institutions. One of the main challenges is…
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Customer snapshotKeele, United Kingdom In order for both students and teachers to make the best use of the resources offered by an LMS, not only should educational content be shared within the platform, the user experience should also be considered. This…
Customer snapshotSheffield, England The University of Sheffield, in the County of South Yorkshire, England, is now delivering 5% of its formal examinations online through the Blackboard Learn platform. This developing initiative is slowly transforming the learning environment and continues to engage…
Customer snapshotDubai, United Arab Emirates. The Middle East has one of the highest rates of diabetes and obesity, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). To counteract this, the United Arab Emirates’ Government has implemented various initiatives, included among them are…
Customer snapshotLeeds, United Kingdom The University of Leeds is moving from a paper-based survey system to an automated one that delivers the questions online. This innovative strategy has made it faster, easier, and cheaper to evaluate the quality of students’ learning…
Customer snapshotRiyadh, Saudi Arabia Blackboard Analytics helps colleges and universities globally to reduce student attrition and increase enrollment and engagement by extracting valuable insights from their existing data. Saleh Alsalamah has been working as a Blackboard Administrator at Saudi Electronic University…
Customer snapshotMaastricht, Netherlands No matter how technology is employed in education, it shouldn’t be introduced without thinking about a delivery method and how the students are going to welcome it. Today, with the amount of tools in both students’ and teacher’s…
Customer snapshotDungannon, Northern Ireland South West College has a presence in the counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh in Northern Ireland with four campuses located in Cookstown, Dungannon, Enniskillen, and Omagh. Over 500 full and part-time staff service 14,000 students and work…
Customer snapshotLondon, United Kingdom Education has changed through generations, and with that, professional demands and employment have also gone through major transformations. Each generation often changes the way they learn and how they see life and their future depending on the…
Customer snapshotMarseille, France Strengthening students’ creativity, their critical-thinking skills, and the ability to research and synthesize information properly, are just some of the objectives at France’s Kedge Business School. This institution goes beyond imparting knowledge, as it is also heavily focused…
Customer snapshotNew Castle, DE, United States Most people in industries around the world will tell you that video is the present and the future. Industries like advertising, journalism, entertainment, and even education are embracing the video format to completely transform their…
Expert AnalysisIn Asia’s current era of education reform, institutions increasingly pilot Outcomes-Based or Competency-Based Education models. The LMS plays a critical role in this pivot as today’s digital systems have the capacity to provide tools to activate pedagogy; organize assessment and…
Expert AnalysisSince 2009, higher education institutions have been opening new pathways to degree completion in answer to a national goal voiced by President Barack Obama: “by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of graduates in the world” (Obama,2009)….
RoundtablesCompetency-based education (CBE) offers learners a new choice and a new opportunity to participate in education. The Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Open LMS platforms provide a variety of tools and resources for institutions and organizations that wish to successfully deploy CBE programs. Implementing a competency-based education (CBE) program often requires major institutional, organizational,…
Customer snapshotCollege Station, Texas, United States Nowadays, numerous subjects can be taught via e-learning tools such as online content and materials, video assignments and voice recordings, to name a few. There are many advantages to online learning, one of which is…
Customer snapshotMelbourne, Australia For Dr. Kulari Lokuge, associate director of eLearning at Monash College, the pedagogical approach taken by the Central eLearning Team (CeLT) has facilitated the team’s support in the delivery of high quality pre-university courses. With the creation of…
InfographicsRead the PDF Openness has been a feature of higher education for decades thanks to the establishment of open universities and digital technologies. Due to technological evolution, Open Educational Resources (OERs) have become the bridge between education and digital development[1]….
Customer snapshotManila, Philippines Academic excellence and passion for innovation are pillars at Manila-based Lyceum of the Philippines University. By April 2016, it had set an important goal for itself: to become an educational leader in e-learning with the help of online…
Customer snapshotPortland – OR, United States Online learning environments can be either synchronous or asynchronous. Synchronous online collaboration tools remove distance, whereas asynchronous collaboration minimizes both distance and time as barriers to working and learning together. Asynchronous learning can therefore provide…
Customer snapshotAtlanta – Georgia, United States E-learning continues to thrive and erase geographic distances using digital communication and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) for formal and informal learning. This gives people the same leverage regardless of location. Gautam Saha, Instructional Designer at…
Customer snapshotCoventry, United Kingdom. In today’s globalized world, speaking more than one language has become an important skill for business and in life. More people are learning a different language as a means to travel, effectively communicating with others, and as…
Customer snapshotMissoula, Mont., United States Thanks to the Personalized Learning Designer from Blackboard Open LMS, students at Montana Digital Academy who are completing a credit recovery course from a failed face-to-face class can receive personalized feedback that allows them to successfully achieve the…
Customer snapshotTexas, U.S.A Due to its small-schools model that allows teachers to really get to know each student, Frisco Independent School District is one of the fastest growing in the United States. Technology and e-learning systems are a big part of…
Customer snapshotBarcelona, Spain Pompeu Fabra University believes in strong, interactive teaching, and that is why it has partnered with Blackboard Open LMS, the online platform that will enable it to expand its learning and performance strategies.
InterviewsParis, France E-Learn Magazine presents an interview with Henri Isaac, Vice President of Digital Transformation in the Paris Dauphine University, pioneer in pedagogical innovation and author of a report on Digital University requested by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research….
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Customer snapshotSão Paulo, Brazil Technology has changed the way we see, do and think about various aspects of everyday life, one of which is teaching and learning. This is the case at Centro Universitario Adventista de São Paulo, which has expanded…
Customer snapshotSydney, Australia How to teach creativity in the classroom. This is the main question that the Australian Film Television and Radio School has been asking itself from the very beginning, since it took on the responsibility of fostering the country’s film industry….
Customer snapshotHudson, NC, United States The use of a digital platform like Blackboard Open LMS at Caldwell Community College & Technical Institute (CCC&TI) has allowed education programs to be complemented and expanded beyond daily classroom sessions, and this has also increased…
Customer snapshotLondon, England For over 50 years, The American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) has been committed to cross-cultural exchange. Under the guidance of founder Sir Cyril Taylor, AIFS operates as a social enterprise based in Stamford, Connecticut. The organization maintains…
Customer snapshotMissoula, MT, United States For the University of Montana, innovation and accessibility go hand in hand. By working with Blackboard Open LMS and the Moodle Accessibility Collaboration Group, the institution strives to provide an online learning management system that is…
Customer snapshotBoston, MA, United States Drew Mirque is the senior applications support specialist at Simmons College, in Boston, United States. He has over 20 years’ experience in e-learning, facing daily challenges to improve the quality of online education at the women’s…
Customer snapshotCairo, Egypt Speaking a second or third language is virtually essential in today’s globalized world. Academic opportunities, greater competitiveness in the job market, and greater cognitive development are some of the advantages of being multilingual. There are currently around 7,000…
InterviewsLondon, United Kingdom Phillip Miller is the International Vice President of Open Source services at Blackboard. He has worked there and in Blackboard Open LMS, the main Open Source product for education from Blackboard for over 10 years. Phillip works with 1,500…
Customer snapshotManila, Philippines Philippine Women’s University is the first private university for women in Asia founded by Asians. Established in 1919, its goal was to prepare women to participate in the building of a new nation. Today, the university also accepts male…
Customer snapshotLondon, United Kingdom With a history that dates back 130 years, Middlesex University is an educational institution that arose from multiple colleges and training institutions in North London, England coming together. Today, it is a world-class institution with campuses and partnerships that…
ReviewsCiudad de México, México The Continued Education Division (DEC for its Spanish acronym) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) disseminates successful, innovative programs with high technology content to achieve effectiveness. Likewise, DEC’s duty is to disseminate continued education…
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