Blackboard Learn: Your Foundation for Engaging and Assessing Learners
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Agenda
• Who We Are• Meeting the Challenges of Education• Where We’re Headed• Conclusion
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Who We Are
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Born from education in 1997
1,000+ of us, working with 5,200+ of you
Extended by 2,500 developers and partners
9 global offices across 4 continents
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Over 20 Channel Partners in 30 Countries
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Each day, thousands of institutions and millions of people use Blackboard solutions to enrich the education experience.
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Engaging and assessing learners at all levels
Making their daily lives more convenient and secure
Keeping them informed and aware
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• An open, web-based teaching and learning platform for engaging and assessing learners in and beyond the classroom
• 3,000+ clients, 15+ million estimated active users, at all levels of learning
• Local or hosted deploymentEngaging and assessing learners at all levels
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• A commerce and security management platform for improving the student experience and increasing campus safety while streamlining operations and increasing revenue
• 440+ clients, 3+ million estimated cardholders
• Enterprise software solution with integrated point-of-sale, access control, and camera hardware
Making their daily lives more convenient and secure
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• A fully-hosted notification and alert platform for reaching millions of users in minutes through Voice, Email, SMS, Text, TTY, Wireless, and PDA capabilities
• 2,400 clients in K-12, Higher Education, and Government
• 370 million messages delivered in 2008, 99.99% uptime, serving:– 1 in 5 K-12 student households– 1 in 8 Higher Ed students– 4 million+ citizens
Keeping them informed and aware
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Partnering with clients of all sizes to create the most impact from their Blackboard solutions.
Strategic Services• Launch and Expand
Online Learning Programs• Engage Student Through
Effective Use of Technology
Technical Services• Manage Upgrades and
Implementations• Design and Develop
Customized Solutions to Meet Specific Needs
Training Services• Deliver Product Training• Provide Professional
Development Opportunities for Your Staff
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• 99.7% uptime guarantee• 6 Datacenters
• 2,000+ servers • Over 1 Petabyte enterprise file storage
Blackboard Managed Hosting
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THE UNIVERSITY
OF GEORGIA
Engaging with our Diverse Community
• Broaden your reach through a global community of practice
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Meeting the Challenges of Education
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How do we really engage diverse learners with diverse styles in and beyond the classroom?
Economic Uncertainty
Unprecedented Choices
Global Connectedness
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Learners have many choices, and they will act on them.
“Learner” means young to old and in between.
Learning occurs everywhere now, testing the classroom-centered model.
Measuring impact, meeting accountability, is even harder.
Technology is a must, but assembling the pieces is hard.
How can we help educators be more productive?
What about measuring learning outcomes?
We need to reach more underserved and non-traditional students.
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• You can manage it, measure it, rely on it, make it fit your world
• It helps solve your problems today and tomorrow, without adding complexity
• And comes from experienced sources that are going to be around for a long time
Technology can play a big role, if:
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• For engaging and assessing today’s learners
• In and beyond the classroom
• So you can•Get them•Help them achieve•Keep them
Blackboard Learn is your foundation:
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How can you get them, help them achieve, and keep them?
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Engagement
• Attracting learners no matter who they are or how they learn
• Engaging learners inside and beyond the classroom
• Putting learners at the center to enable personalized, connected experiences
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Assessment
• Integrating assessment into daily teaching and learning practices
• Measuring learning outcomes at every level
• Centralizing and integrating all your assessment initiatives
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Through an Open Platform
• Enabling rapid innovation and freedom of choice
• Providing secure ways to integrate
• Open to the content you need and the web services you use
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How do you drive
engagement and
assessment through an
open platform?
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Blackboard LearnCommon Challenges:• Are you struggling to keep both Millenials and non-traditional
students engaged?• Is valuable learning content getting “lost in the system”? • Do you understand how your curriculum and student learning
standards are aligned with internal and external expectations?• Are you struggling with engaging students beyond the classroom?• Do you need to communicate differently with your differing
constituencies?• Are your instructors having trouble sharing learning and course
resources?• Are you struggling to compile data to meet accountability
requirements, internal and external?• Are your completion rates declining?
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Blackboard Learn
Solution: Blackboard Learn is your foundation for engaging and assessing today’s learners in and beyond the classroom.
Through an open platform that allows you to:• Meet more of your needs from a single place• Reduce the complexity you have to manage• Extend and integrate to meet your unique needs
While also enabling you to:• Get the most out of investments you’ve already made• Maintain a consistent and engaging core experience for
your users
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Key Capabilities:• Deliver engaging and effective online courses that meet the
needs of all your learners• Build vibrant communities beyond the bounds of the classroom• Support formal and informal collaboration for all members of
your campus community – in and beyond the classroom• Provide ways to manage and share valuable learning content• Deliver customized experiences that meet the needs of all of
your constituencies• Enable students to gather
evidence of their progress and reflect on their learning
Blackboard Learn: Engagement
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Key Capabilities:• Assess student learning in formal and informal ways through
daily teaching and learning activities• Develop insight into student progress based on course
interactions and activities• Gather authentic evidence of student learning through multiple
methods• Plan your path forward
through Assessment Management• Measure progress through
integrated reporting
Blackboard Learn: Assessment
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Blackboard Learn: OpennessBlackboard Learn is an open platform that supports the best of all worlds: a reliable and scalable platform with the flexibility to support freedom of choice and the power to drive innovation.Key Capabilities:• Documented APIs that enable secure integration with other systems• Blackboard Building Blocks
program to support community of thousands of developers and hundreds of system extensions
• Partnerships with third party content providers to enable content choice and flexibility
• Commitment to support of industry standards including IMS, SCORM, SIF, etc.
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How can you ensure success so you can get them, help them achieve, and keep them?
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By Leveraging Blackboard Expertise
1. Strategic and Technical Services
2. Training
3. Managed Hosting
4. Global Support
Blackboard is your partner in addressing your teaching, learning and assessment needs so you can maximize your technology investment.
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Strategic and Technical Services
Karen YoshinoDirector, Institutional Assessment After 25 years in Higher Education, Karen joined Blackboard in 2006.
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“We partner with clients of all sizes to make the best use of their Blackboard system. I like to think of it as helping to make Blackboard fit their teaching, learning and assessment processes.”
• Meet your academic, technical and administrative goals• Benefit from experiences of thousands of institutions across
the globe• Focus your in house resources on supporting your users and
driving adoption
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Training
Jen MatthewsDirector, Global TrainingJen spent 8 years in K12 education prior to joining Blackboard in 2002.
“Having taught for 8 years prior to coming to Blackboard, I understand the pressure on teachers to do more and more with fewer resources.”
• Drive successful platform adoption• Achieve your unique pedagogical goals• Bring your e-learning program design and instruction to the next
level
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Managed Hosting
“I know first hand just how important reliable infrastructure management is in today’s 24x7 teaching and learning environment. Our six data centers around the world ensure that we’ll deliver the technology that your school needs to grow.”
• Delivers on service level guarantees to keep your school up and running
• Provides capacity for growth• Reduces the burden on your IT staff • Enables your school to get up and running in no time
Brian ChapmanData Center ManagerBrian has been in Datacenter Operations Management for 8 years and has been with Blackboard since 2006.
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Dave StillwellDirector, International Client Support Prior to joining Blackboard in 2008, Dave worked at American University for 7 years as a Technical and IT Operations director.
Global Support
“Having worked at an institution for seven years, I’m familiar with the challenges associated with running enterprise applications on a university campus. My goal is to help clients solve problems while also serving as a client advocate within Blackboard.”
• Dedicated Technical Support Managers serve as internal advocates for system administrators
• Behind the Blackboard Extranet providing effective global web-based communication
• Support for educators, students and staff ensure that your end users get the assistance they need
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Where We’re Headed
We may make statements regarding our product development and service offering initiatives, including the content of future product upgrades, updates or functionality in development. While such statements represent our current intentions, they may be modified, delayed or abandoned without prior notice and there is no assurance that such offering, upgrades, updates or functionality will become available unless and until they have been made generally available to our customers.
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Blackboard Learn Vision
Your foundation for engaging and assessing today’s learners in and beyond the classroom…
So you can get them, help them achieve and keep them.
ASSESS
ENGAGE
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Engagement: Core Capabilities
Key Capabilities include:
• Managing, sharing and delivering learning content
• Creating customized learning paths
• Supporting student interaction through threaded discussions
• Enabling group collaboration in courses
• Building communities beyond the classroom
• Targeting information and services
to diverse constituencies
• Customizing experiences with
flexible role structure, content and branding
Blackboard Learn provides a core set of tools for engaging learners of every type – both inside and beyond the classroom.
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Engagement: New in Bb Learn Release 9
• A New User Experience matches Millennials’ Web Experience• Customizable Themes create a more familiar environment for your
users• Modular Course Homepages
support your educators’ unique pedagogical strategies
• Blogs and Journals drive activeand social learning
• Improved Group Tools enablebetter collaboration
• Embedded IM with Wimba Pronto™ Basic
Release 9 supports deeper engagement with your learners.
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Assessment: Core Capabilities
Blackboard Learn provides a core set of tools for assessing learning at multiple levels.Key Capabilities include:• Assess student learning in the classroom with quizzes, tests and
assignments• Analyze data with course and system level reporting• Support authentic assessment through Portfolios and Artifacts• Enable program-level assessment
processes with Improvement Projects• Gather assessment data through
surveys and course evaluations
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Assessment: New in Bb Learn Release 9Release 9 expands support for diverse assessment practices.• Expanded question types support better formative assessment • Self and peer assessment enables improved assessment of active and
social learning• Instructor and Student Dashboard with Early Warning drive deeper
insights into learning and provide better data for action on the front lines
• Improved Grade Center allows teachers to focus time on teaching and research not data entry and analysis
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Openness: Core CapabilitiesBlackboard Learn is an open platform that supports the best of all worlds: a reliable and scalable platform with the flexibility to support freedom of choice and the power to drive innovation.Key Capabilities include:• Documented APIs that enable secure integration with other systems• Blackboard Building Blocks
program to support community of thousands of developers and hundreds of system extensions
• Partnerships with third party content providers to enable content choice and flexibility
• Commitment to support of industry standards including IMS, SCORM, SIF, etc.
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Openness: New in Bb Learn Release 9
• Learning Environment Connector enables integration with other Course Management Systems including Sakai and Moodle
• Improved Building Block openness with enhanced Web Services and APIs provides more easy ways to extend the platform
• Integration with Facebook and iPhone takes
Blackboard Learn to where
students are, meeting the
expectations of Millennials
• Expanded IMS Standards
support including LTI provides
clients with more flexibility
• Support for SCORM 2004 3rd Edition
allows clients to use widely available content
Release 9 includes significant advancements in openness.
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Hye Jung Lee Heinrich Koenen
Doug Cohen
Kevin Reeve
Utah State University
SUNY
Seoul National University
Progressive Insurance
Alexandria City Public Schools
National Defense University
Elizabeth HooverGreg Frederick
Grand Rapids Community College
Eric Kunnen
Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
Yessica EspinosaBruce Tenison
Wallace State Community College - Hanceville
Bonita Bray
University of Alberta
Ryan Gravette
Idaho Digital Learning Academy
Paul Fisher
Seton Hall University
Developing the Roadmap with the CommunityUniversity of Texas at Dallas
Rhonda Blackburn Pat Call
Cengage Learning
Jana Hickey
Jefferson County Public Schools
Nancy Edwards
State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota
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Your Institution Here
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ANGEL Learning Roadmap
• ANGEL 7.3 and 7.4 currently in the field
• Commitment to develop ANGEL 8.0 – planning is underway now
• Long term strategy is to bring the best of ANGEL into Project NG
• LPS effort to merge with Blackboard Learn for Outcomes Assessment
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Bringing the Platform Together
• Project NG – Best of WebCT™, Blackboard® and ANGEL
Learning™ solutions and more– Multi-year, multi-app pack phased delivery – No database migration– Normal upgrade under existing contracts
• Upgrade path from CE 4, CE 8, Vista 8, Blackboard “Classic” 8 and ANGEL LMS 8
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Release 9
Release 9.1
Additional Application Packs
CE 8 Vista 8CE 4Classic
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Release X
ANGEL 8
Project NG
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• Engage and assess learners at all levels
• No matter who they are or how they learn
• In and beyond the classroom
• So you can get them, help them achieve and keep them
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