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Quick take: Belmont University is exploring new possibilities with the Ultra experience for Blackboard Learn.

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: At DC Public Schools, blended learning has become an integral instructional practice utilized throughout the district to improve student experience.

Vestavia Hills, Ala., United States At Vestavia Hills High School, students wanted to promote school spirit and unity through a mobile app they envisioned, designed to improve communication among peers. Facilitated by high school leaders, the VHHS student life app…

Hicksville, N.Y., United States A virtual school for grades 6-12 based in Hicksville, New York, Obridge Academy attracts many non-traditional students, including those with documented learning disabilities and accommodation needs. Due to its initiative to use technology to reach those who need differentiated instruction and support services in the virtual environment, the institution is among the winners of the…

Chía, Colombia. Twenty-four years ago, when Fabián Avella joined the Universidad de La Sabana as a systems analyst, LAN networks did not exist, and the Internet as well as Email as we know them today, were just a dream for…

Quick Take: Professor Eric Tsui from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, who will be speaking at the upcoming Blackboard Teaching & Learning Conference Asia 2018, taking place in Singapore in October 2018, shares his thoughts on what the 21st century learning environment can be.

Flexibility, practicality, and nationwide coverage were the reasons why Gildemeister, the official representative of Hyundai in Peru, decided to partner with Blackboard to improve the company’s overall sales strategy. “With Blackboard, we look to have a solution that supports our entire…

Quick Take: Keeping students from dropping out depends on a retention strategy that is based on understanding why they are choosing to leave school in the first place.

Arequipa, Peru. In Peru, there is still some distrust and resistance towards banking from a large portion of the population, especially in rural communities. This reluctance to accessing banking services is largely due to the long period of time this…

“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” – Peter Drucker Just over 20 years ago, Blackboard set out to solve the most critical challenges of education institutions. Blackboard founders recognized the impact that the Internet could have on…

Challenge To better serve its 4,330 students in central Florida, Stetson University aspired to be an innovator in online education. When Jose Bernier, chief information officer, came to Stetson, he struggled to realize his vision for innovation and excellence with…

Quick take: Lewis & Clark Community College developed an innovative way to analyze student retention rates, in relation to student support services around campus. By targeting at-risk groups, they were able to increase retention by offering students timely assistance.

Quick Take: With more than 10 types of higher education institutions, Mexico offers great options for all kinds of students.

Read the essentials or go deeper In this special: Inclusive education and digital access: Is your institution on top of it? Highlights from Blackboard’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

Quick take: By providing accessibility and flexibility in its training programs, IPLACEX is reducing barriers in its educational environments, which benefits, for instance, students with disabilities and those that live far from urban centers.

Coffee Region, Colombia The Manuel Mejía Foundation (FMM) is a private non-profit entity founded in 1961 by Colombia’s coffee sector, with the aim of establishing agricultural education centers to train industry workers, and for the agricultural and livestock sector in…

Quick Take: The Exemplary Course Program (ECP) allows Blackboard clients to examine their courses’ design, collaboration and interaction, assessment, and learner support characteristics, and to share insights with other community members through peer review.

Quick Take: It’s an effective way to Improving Public Health Systems and help health officials end the intersecting epidemics of HIV, viral hepatitis, and related conditions. Learn more about how NASTAD strengthens national and global government public health through capacity building.

Quick take: As markets, jobs and activities evolve, new skills become needed. Companies will have to work in collaboration with individuals and education institutions in order to develop these capabilities.

Quick take: The use of behavioral science in educational research is helping institutions to understand what makes a successful student.

Quick take: Over the next 10 years, Australian primary and secondary schools will receive billions of dollars worth of investments. However, the government still argues there’s a need to rationalize expenditure in higher education in order to keep it sustainable.

San Juan, Puerto Rico Nowadays, higher education institutions are at a crossroads, both for trying to capture students’ attention worldwide, and for creating interest in their academic programs –  and the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR) is no exception….

Santiago de Chile, Chile Chile’s Andres Bello University (UNAB in Spanish), a member of the Laureate International Universities Network, has been developing and strengthening a Comprehensive Support Model for both the design and offering of online courses and programs that have been developed…

Quick take: The BITS Program started seven years ago and now it is expanding to offer international clients the opportunity to engage in webinars focused on higher education best practices.

“It’s a struggle, to be honest. But it’s reality, and you can’t escape it. Sometimes you can’t eat. But nothing else matters now. Try not to fail or get probation. To be honest, education now isn’t about learning. It’s about…

Quick Take: How can previous work experience within a university setting help consultants assist educational institutions solve key challenges? Five Blackboard consultants share their experiences.

At Blackboard, we recognize that an LMS is simply not enough to solve your most critical challenges.  As we look to the future, we are focused on developing a comprehensive, digital learning environment aimed at helping institutions to solve their…

Quick Take: Learn more about how Singapore invests in education to guarantee its economic future.

Quick take: California State University – Chico had many challenges to overcome in order to create a more inclusive learning experience and comply with federal and state laws. Collaboration and the right technology made it possible for the institution to move up on the accessibility spectrum in record time.

Quick take: Neuroscience reveals that no two students learn in the same way, a process that is as varied as our fingerprints. Universal Learning Design gives all individuals equal opportunities by providing multiple ways of representation, engagement and expression.

Quick take: Being truly inclusive means considering different needs and abilities when designing course curriculum and content, instead of making accommodations. Most higher education institutions, however, are still far from achieving that outcome.

Quick Take: Most people love a good cup of coffee, but in Singapore, marginalized women and at-risk youth have had a taste of something even better: since 2011, Bettr Barista’s social program have given them the skills to build a career and a new life.

Quick Take: Do you know about UDL? Universal Design for Learning is an approach to curriculum that gives students equal opportunities to learn and succeed.

Every time I sit down with an instructor to talk about the rollout of a new course, I’m amazed by how many different work streams must come together to launch a new course. All of this happens before the course…

Quick take: Several innovations are taking place at Saint Paul Business School. The unprecedented use of cognitive computing is just one of them. The institution also aims to democratize education in Brazil and transform executive education.

Quick take: Natural beauty, great culture and education levels on the rise: check out why Colombia is being chosen by more international students as a higher education destination every year.

Quick Take: Anticipating students’ struggles and lending them a hand: with the use of Learning Analytics solutions, Concordia University Wisconsin is able to provide a more personalized academic experience and increase retention.

Quick take: Learning analytics is trending and it seems to offer endless possibilities. Institutions and education professionals can benefit from this powerful technology, as long as they remember that working with data requires human wisdom.

Melbourne, Australia Dr. Kulari Lokuge of Monash College is leading a team of innovators, faculty, and students through an education transformation journey. Their award-winning model supports staff professional development while providing students with a modern way of learning. Monash College…

Assessment plays a major role in education, as a student grading and support mechanism, but also in program improvement. All over the world, there are varying perspectives and approaches, and regions are taking action in different forms of assessment, both…

Quick take: How to effectively assess outcomes? How can technology facilitate this process for faculty? How can outcomes assessment lead to higher quality in education? Proper assessment conduction can be challenging for instructors, but a few tips can help.

Academic effectiveness serves as central focus for institutions of higher education across the globe. The pursuit of academic effectiveness drives numerous activities within institutions including, but not limited to the following: Creating and delivering high quality curriculum and instruction Meaningful,…

Quick take: What types of assessment are being used to measure quality in education? Different paradigms are emerging, and institutions and faculty need to be aligned in order to properly measure learning outcomes and offer a student-centered education.

Quick take: The design of accessible course content, materials and interactions benefits all students and guarantees more inclusive learning experiences.

Quick take: New Zealand is number 13 in the Human Development Report and number 10 on education rankings such as the World Economic Forum. One thing has a lot to do with the other.

Hiram, Ohio Hiram College is integrating mindfulness and technology into students’ daily lives and is the first four-year college in Ohio to launch a one-to-one iPad initiative: Tech and Trek. This initiative, in the Traditional College, and a change in…

Hwaseong, Gyeonggi, South Korea The University of Suwon International College’s groundbreaking e-learning initiatives are changing the course of how students and faculty engage in the classroom. Offering original content like “Zombie Film Studies,” and Blackboard’s advanced education tools, innovative educators…

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Technology has become an essential part of modern society. However, it can be difficult to adopt new technologies, particularly in areas where it has traditionally been ignored. Students today don’t just ask for technology tools to…

Mexico City, Mexico Nancy Olmos and Abraham López are Blackboard Customer Success Advocates for Latin America, and as such their work includes ensuring that company clients adopt solutions as effectively as possible and get the best value out of them….

According to World Bank figures, 64% of Colombians plan for less than a month or have no financial plans, 58% have problems meeting their expenses and a mere 41% of those under the age of 60 have taken steps to…

Technology has always played a role in education. During the 19th century, it was the chalkboard that changed how teachers interacted in the classroom.1 During the 20th century, the advent of record players, radios, televisions, and eventually computers, led to…

Quick Take: Brazilians are the kings of soccer, but now they want to score big in education – and they are choosing online learning to do so.

Quick take: How can I help students be interested, engaged, and successful? What tools can be used to personalize learning? Every instructor has their own approach, and best practices deserve to be shared.

Quick Take: Being student-centered is no longer a choice for institutions, but a pressing necessity. How to do that? Think like a student.

Quick Take: Does your institution already have a peer learning program? At Western Sydney University, online peer learning sessions are a way to get students engaged and improve their study skills. Blackboard Learn resources facilitate peer assessments through machine learning and intuitive grading workflows.

Quick Take: More autonomous learners, capable of developing an active role in educational processes: that’s what student-centered learning is all about. However, there are educators who believe a more teacher-driven method is still the best way to go.

Quick Take: Is your institution student-centered? Investing in a student-focused approach can ensure a better educational experience and increase student engagement. Virtual student services, the use of mobile technologies and cognitive solutions are examples of initiatives that extend beyond campus reach

Quick Take: In a knowledge economy, we need to ensure that every student is getting the right opportunities to fulfill their potential. Online learning offers a flexibility that can help transform Education into a student-centered learning system beneficial to all.

Quick take: What do students want? Students from different generations seem to have a lot in common when it comes to expectations regarding their education experience. They share concerns and expectations, and institutions must listen.

Quick Take: How can a higher education institution help students succeed? The Student Experience Redesign Project was created by George Mason University to enrich students’ first year experience, provide better student support and services, and generate a culture of continuous improvement. That will be done through the use of new technologies and student, staff, and faculty collaboration.

With specialized educational programs implemented through digital platforms, Universidad Virtual de Estudios Superiores (UNIVES) is consolidating its position as one of the best online education universities in Mexico. UNIVES dates back to 1994, when the first computer training school was…

Quick take: In order to differentiate its online programs in the market and increase online student enrollment, California Baptist University invested in high-definition video conferencing technology, course design facilitation, faculty training, and student advisory services. These initiatives have extended the reach of the campus and promoted online student engagement.

Nicolaas Matthijs, Fronteer – Accessibility is not optional – E-learn

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.

Santiago 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…

Quick Take: IntelliBoard is a great plug-in for open source LMS, useful to store data for future use.

“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…

Singapore Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a fast and reliable cloud technology. By creating powerful, simple-to-deploy services, AWS has brought the cloud services into mainstream. Blackboard has begun a global mission to educate new and existing customers about their newest…

Quick 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.

Quick 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.

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: 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.

Quick 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.

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: 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.

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: Blackoard’s first Hackboard is aimed to stimulate participants’ creativity, as well as to promote collaborative and open work for LMS development.

Quick take: A school in Hong Kong has created a unique model to offer real-time, flexible online learning. Their best practices make possible to teach students from remote locations.

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…

Sheffield, 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…

Dubai, 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…

Leeds, 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…

Riyadh, 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…

Maastricht, 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…

Dungannon, 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…

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia The use of digital learning tools is often seen as a good strategy for courses like mathematics, sciences, and languages. Nevertheless, artistic and visual signatures are usually confined to the analog corner. Emile Burnham, Associate Professor for…

London, 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…

Marseille, 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…

Aarhus, Denmark Through Blackboard Learn tools, such as blogs, students at Aarhus University participate in a rewarding peer feedback exercise that has become a great complement to teaching and learning. For Karen Louise Moller, a special consultant of the Faculty…

Gjøvik and Trondheim, Norway The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has, since 1st of January 2016 been the biggest university in Norway. However, before that, it was three independent colleges and one university. The Norwegian government decided to…

London, United Kingdom Internet and software users often use tools without properly reading the terms and conditions or thinking about the social repercussions these might have. In teaching and learning applications that use user data, this can be an important…

Amsterdam, Netherlands. Marco D’Alessio is an e-learning designer with over 10 ten years’ experience in the design and development of complex content. His background is in Instructional Design and Communication Science and has worked in fields such as management, psychology,…

Northampton, England All institutions have a way of assessing their students on how much progress they have made if they have learned the subject matter and if the objectives of the class have been met. There are many types of…

Arald Den Brader Breda, The Netherlands In 1998, Arald den Braber returned to his alma mater to support the school’s IT unit. Over fifteen years, he would become a unique witness to the evolution of the LMS in the Netherlands,…

Derby, United Kingdom The University of Derby is one of the top ten United Kingdom universities for teaching quality and has been engaging in online learning for over 20 years. Today, more than 3,000 students from over 100 countries study…

Reading, United Kingdom The University of Reading, located in South East England, has been taking giant steps to fully introduce its whole community of academics, lecturers, administrators, support staff and students into the world of technology for teaching and learning…

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…

Traditional learning has always been a time-based industry. A student sits in a chair for hours listening to lectures in a “chalk and talk” approach. The credits are not given based on if the student has learned but if they…

If you pay attention to educational development, you may have heard of competency based education (CBE). In 2015, Inside Higher Education[1] reported that approximately 600 institutions have some form of a CBE program in the design and development phase, and…

Axial Training was founded in 1982 with the establishment of a large-scale heavy engineering workshop near the Port of Brisbane. Along with other members of his family, Val Llewellyn established the business to provide custom machinery and fabrication to the…

Read the PDF version What is open education? Open education refers to a philosophy on the way people must produce, share and build upon knowledge. Followers of this philosophy think that everyone in the world must have access to high-quality…

Blended Learning: a new methodology for the new times

Manila, 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…

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…

Atlanta – 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…

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…

Missoula, 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…

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…

Texas, 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…

Accessibility according to the institution Electronic accessibility has strong legal implications for educational institutions, the most notable legislation we are required to comply with in the U.S. being the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), Section 508 of the…

Accessibility according to the student Accessible technologies are the key to truly leveling the playing field between students with disabilities and their non-disabled peers. While pursuing my undergraduate degree I had the opportunity to experience a wide array of courses…

As an instructional designer who also teaches in higher education, I am in the unique position to fully understand the constraints of and empathize with faculty who are faced with the task of redesigning courses to make them accessible.  It…

The World Health Organization reports that, approximately, one billion people in the world have some form of disability. That, and because they recognize that everyone learns in a different way, is a key driver behind Blackboard Inc’s focus on designing…

Raleigh, NC, United States In 2004 and 2005, four students at Harvard University created a website where students from the university could enjoy fluid communication and share content in a simple way via the internet. Their creation was so successful…

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…

Holt, MI, United States When you see Dr. Chuck, you might not realize that he is a walking billboard for Learning Management Systems. He is known for tattooing logos of LMS companies that use the LMS learning tools interoperability (LTI)…

Sydney, Australia The Teaching and Learning Conference for Australia and New Zealand (TLC ANZ) 2016 took place on August 28-31 in Sydney, Australia. With more than 230 attendees and 60 working sessions, the event demonstrated how Blackboard is the leading company…

Paris, 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….

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…

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…

The IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS Global) is an international non-profit organization that develops and supports interoperability standards to promote collaboration between education technology organizations and applications. Since its founding in 1995, the IMS Global Learning Consortium has approved and…

São 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…

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….

Hudson, 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…

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…

Boston, 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…

Sydney, Australia Australia is the sixth largest country in the world. It has a total surface of more than 4,753,490 square miles and is surrounded by the Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans. Additionally, it has six climate types: equatorial, tropical,…

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…

Baltimore, United States Product development in the technology market now a day is a very challenging job. Companies have to keep up with the different trends, update existing software and innovate while hundreds of thousands of people are trying to…

Minneapolis, MN, United States It’s a curious thing that, generally speaking, when someone tells you that they’re an expert in usability and instructional and educational design, it’s tough to imagine what type of person they’ll turn out to be. “The…

Cairo, 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…

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…

Sumter, SC, United States Behind every computer there is, obviously, meticulously crafted hardware that allows everything to function correctly. From wires to buttons and from microchips to high-resolution screens. We all know this, but rarely think about the human element…

London, 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…

Manila, 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…

Ciudad 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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Bayer: a successful case of sales improvement through Learning effectiveness

Los Gatos, CL, United States Phil is Co-Publisher of the e-Literate blog, Co-Producer of e-Literate TV, and Partner at MindWires Consulting. As a market analyst, Phil has spent the last 15 years analyzing the growth of technology-enabled change for educational…