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…
Customer snapshotToledo, Ohio, United States According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 1 billion people in the world with some sort of disability. Technology has played a significant role in making teachers aware of their students’ needs, as well as including…
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.
Expert AnalysisQuick take: Rather than a way of punishing students, plagiarism prevention technology can be a powerful tool to teach them proper citation and how to improve their original writing.
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.
InterviewsQuick Take: Currently, Cal Poly stores data for future use in analyzing individual student’s results over multiple courses or trimesters.
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 poses numerous challenges when running and maintaining an LMS in different institutions. One challenge is providing support materials to…
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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, including among them life-skills…
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 reduce student attrition and increase enrollment and engagement by extracting value from the data they already have. Saleh Alsalamah has been working as a Blackboard Administrator at the 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 done the same. Each generation transforms the way they learn, the way they see life, and their future due to the context they live…
Customer snapshotMarseille, France Strengthening creativity in students, a critical perspective of situations, and the skill of finding good information and knowing how to summarize it, are some of the objectives of the French institution Kedge Business School. It is a business…
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 Moodlerooms 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, curricular, and…
Customer snapshotCollege Station, TX, United States Many subjects can be taught via E-Learning through readings, video assignments, and voice recordings that students will remember and practice on their own time. However veterinary medicine requires very precise skills that require practical application,…
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 allowed them to support the delivery of high quality pre-university courses. The creation of professional development…
ReviewsGlasgow, Scotland Wakefield, England It seems like ages ago that we first heard about Moodlerooms in 2005. Since then, it has served hundreds of colleges, universities, schools, businesses and organizations to support the software that educators use to manage and deliver educational…
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 the pillars of Manila-based Lyceum of the Philippines University (LPU). 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 synchronous or asynchronous. Synchronous online collaboration tools remove the distance or location. Asynchronous collaboration minimizes both location and time as barriers to working and learning together. It has a huge…
Customer snapshotLübeck, Germany Since their first appearance, Massive Online Open Courses have helped to make education available to everyone; nevertheless, these are still the early days for MOOCs, in terms of developing their maximum potential. Andreas Wittke, an expert on this…
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 As globalization becomes more and more imminent, languages become a bigger and more important factor in our world. People are learning languages as a means of travel, as a way of communicating with other people, as a…
Customer snapshotThanks to the Personalized Learning Designer (PLD) from Blackboard Open LMS, students who are recovering credit at the Montana Digital Academy from a previously failed face-to-face class receive personalized feedback that allows them to successfully achieve the course objectives they…
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…
EventsEl Cairo, Egypt The Virtual University of Senegal (VUS) works constantly to provide its students with a quality education, but not in the conventional manner: it uses online classes. More and more people nowadays have access to further education, because…
Customer snapshotBarcelona, Spain Pompeu Fabra University believes in strong, interactive teaching, and that is why it started working with Blackboard Open LMS, the LMS that enables it to expand the institution’s learning and performance strategies.
EventsCairo, Egypt Mzuzu University is one of the public universities in Malawi that has incorporated Moodle into its learning structure. We talked with Paxton Zozie, the Deputy Director of the Centre for Open and Distance Learning at Mzuzu University, about…
InterviewsLos Angeles, CA, United States Nick Thompson is an IT manager at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) overseeing the Learning Management System (LMS) and learning technologies that connect to it. Locally, the system is referred to as…
InterviewsMexico City, Mexico Aliat Universities is the most extensive university network in the Republic of Mexico and through its work over time, has made the word ‘education’ synonymous with transformation, evolution, and universality. This is because Aliat breaks down any…
InterviewsBuenos Aires, Argentina Argentina suffered one of the most terrible social and political upheavals in its history in 2001. Against the background of an economic crisis that lasted from 1998 to 2002, on the night of December 19, 2001 a…
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….
Customer snapshotHelsinki, Finland When Moodlerooms decided to offer MOOCs for Higher Education institutions, the objective was to create an alternative that was reachable by everyone interested in furthering their education with the possibility of having interaction with instructors, peers and other…
Customer snapshotKuala Lumpur, Malaysia Music is a discipline which requires precision, a good ear, lots of practice and detailed technique, all of which demand time. For all these reasons, it might seem strange to teach music via e-learning. However, the International…
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ReviewsMoodlerooms announces a new version of the platform with enhancements that enrich teaching and learning experiences for teachers and students. With this new version there are 3 main topics to cover: Moodle 3.0 core improvements, Moodlerooms 3.0 improvements, and new…
Customer snapshotSão Paulo, Brazil Technology is a field that has changed the way we see, do and think about various aspects of everyday life, one of which is teaching. This is the case at UNASP (Centro Universitario Adventista de São Paulo),…
Customer snapshotSydney, Australia How do you teach creativity? This is the main question that the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) has been asking itself from the very beginning, since it took on responsibility for fostering the country’s film industry….
EventsValencia, Spain The 1st Moodle Solutions Forum for Universities and Public Administrations (also known as #itmLE16) was held the last 26th and 27th of May in Valencia, Spain. The event was organized by Pentec – Samoo, with the support of…
Customer snapshotHudson, NC, United States The use of a digital platform like Moodlerooms 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 the college’s…
Customer snapshotHong Kong SAR, China Since 2004, The Independent Schools Foundation Academy (ISF), a private independent school located in Hong Kong, has focused on delivering education steeped in Chinese culture accentuated with global awareness. The aim is to ensure children attending…
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, Massachusetts, United States. He has extensive experience in e-learning dating back more than 20 years, and he faces challenges every day in improving…
Customer snapshotFremantle, Australia University degrees can be expensive and time consuming. Not everyone can afford the luxury of spending so much time and money to get a diploma, and unfortunately, there are still many people in the world who have received no…
Customer snapshotCairo, Egypt Speaking a second or third language is virtually essential in today’s globalized world. Academic opportunities, better job competitiveness and, even, greater cognitive development are but some of the advantages of being multilingual. There are currently around seven thousand…
Customer snapshotBarcelona, Spain Institutions and teachers find teaching mathematics via online courses a big challenge, due to the complexity of the task and the high drop-out rate. A number of different Moodle-compatible tools therefore exist that can solve these problems. When…
ReviewsBogotá, Colombia How can we improve virtual learning environments? How can we offer students better ways to carry out their tasks and activities? How can we strengthen our commitment to the open source community? At the beginning of 2016, Blackboard…
Customer snapshotBaltimore, MD, United States. For today’s college students, “non-traditional” is the new normal. According to the Department of Education, non-traditional college students, (over the age of 25, working at least part time, and/or raising a family of their own) account…
InterviewsLondon, United Kingdom Phillip Miller is the International Vice President of Open Source services at Blackboard. He has worked there and in Moodlerooms, the main Open Source product for education from Blackboard for over 10 years. Phillip works with 1,500 Moodle clients…
Customer snapshotBogotá, Colombia Universidad del Rosario, through its Management Centre TIC (CGTIC) has designed, developed and solidified a comprehensive program to incorporate technologies into the classroom and deployed the program throughout the university. The goal was to provide innovative tools in…
InterviewsCiudad de México, México After several years of continuous decline, the Universidad Latinoamericana de México (ULA) did a complete turn around to become one of the fastest growing institutions in the country, driven by the introduction of blended education programs for…
Use CasesGuadalajara, México Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara (UAG) has worked with Moodle since nearly the beginning of the open source project, and has used it to support many different academic processes throughout the university. Understanding the changing academic landscape, in 2006…
Customer snapshotBogotá, Colombia In August 2014, the Colombian Ministry of Technology, Information, and Communications (MinTIC) awarded the Universidad de Los Andes a virtual education project focused on the creation and development of video games, called Jump Camp, which was aimed at…
Customer snapshotManila, Filipinas Philippine Women’s University (PWU) is the first private university for women in Asia founded by Asians. Founded in 1919, its goal was to prepare women to participate in building 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…
Use CasesNew York City, NY, United States In 2011, State University of New York (SUNY) Plattsburgh decided to move its online course offerings to the Moodle learning management system. Since then, they have seen an impressive increase in the creation of…
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Customer snapshotMadrid, Spain Sergio Vasquez, Learning Innovation Manager of ESCP Europe, tells about his experience as the director and creator of the Executive Masters in International Business (EMIB) for the ESCP School Campus in Madrid. ESCP Europe is the oldest business…
ReviewsPress release Centrum, the Business School of Universidad Católica del Perú, launched one of the most innovative, sophisticated and modern education projects of Peru. Centrum, powered by Moodlerooms (formerly Nivel Siete), announced they will be offering Massive Open Online Courses…
