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Read the essentials or go deeper In this special: K-12 schools and districts have unique challenges when it comes to preparing students for their future. For its innovative ways of applying technology to solve problems in teaching and learning while…

Quick 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.

Quick Take: This governmental institution has successfully trained over 68,000 public officials on the government’s new accounting scheme.

“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…

Lucy 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…

Quick 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.

Quick 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.

Quick 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.

Quick 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.

Quick 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.

Quick 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.

Quick 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.

Quick 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.

Portland, 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…

Active Blended Learning

Keele, 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…

New 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…

In 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…

Melbourne, 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…

Digital Innovation: 7 reasons Nossal High School is different from the rest and leading the way for schools in the future

Helsinki, Finland As pedagogy and teaching methods are modernized over time, great opportunities open up for different sectors. An example of this is Finland’s ‘Autokoululiitto,’ a driving school association that has revolutionized the way driving is taught in the country.

Copenhaguen, Denmark The decision to adopt a digital platform as a new training method, promises to bring future graduates closer to the career they want. Copenhagen Business Academy is Denmark’s largest business academy. A few months ago, this academic institution…

Portland – 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…

Manila, Philippines The Internet might seem like something that has been around forever. How did people live without it? How did they communicate? How did students do their homework? Interestingly, in some remote provinces in the Philippines, the Internet is…

Sydney, Australia It’s 2016 and technology is changing all areas of life. Spiritual leaders around the world are using social media to communicate their ideas, and if that’s the case, it’s certainly a viable proposition for institutions to use e-learning…

Sydney, Australia Blackboard is supporting Primary Health Care, one of Australia’s largest health care providers, to deliver ongoing education to its cohort of general practitioners and specialists. By offering unlimited access to courses and learning materials, Blackboard is helping Primary’s…

Mexico City, Mexico The Mexican automobile industry is quickly becoming one of the most thriving industries on the continent and currently employs around 500,000 technicians. A significant increase in production is envisaged by 2020, and preparations are already being made…

New York, NY, United States Many people, even those involved in the online education industry, are unaware that its origins date back to 1960. The first computerized eLearning system to be designed and built was called PLATO (Programmed Logic for…

Singapore, Singapore Today, more companies are becoming aware of the impact that effective human talent management can have on productivity levels. Staff that is duly motivated, well-trained and informed, will help sustain the momentum of any business. Sharp is one of…

Sydney, 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….

London, United Kingdom Oleg Figlin is Vice-President heading the International consultant at Blackboard.  He has held this post for a little over a year, after spending 14 years with another large software company – SAP. His story shows just how…

London, 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…

Missoula, 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…

Baltimore, MD, United States Having 174 public schools in a single system can seem hard to handle, even more so when there is a worldwide transition into digital and blended learning. 174 is the number of schools, centers, and programs…

Salt Lake City, United States Utah’s premier online school is leading the way in terms of e-learning strategies. We talked to DeLaina Tonks, director of Mountain Heights Academy, about the main challenges and the great advantages of virtual education.

Spring Green, USA When you think of Spring Green, an old farming community in southern Wisconsin, high-tech education doesn’t really come to mind. However, amid the big open spaces, the cows and the towns with 1,000 people or fewer, River…

Bayer: a successful case of sales improvement through Learning effectiveness