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.
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: Blackboard’s Learning Analytics Research team investigates how institutions, students and instructors all over the world really use the company’s products. Their findings help Blackboard refine and develop new features.
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.
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,…
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….
Quick Take: Being student-centered is no longer a choice for institutions, but a pressing necessity. How to do that? Think like a student.
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…
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…
Since 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)….
