Blackboard

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Blackboard

• Transforming Learning

Grant Bishop, Regional Sales Manager Kurt Ackman,
Regional Vice President of Sales Matt Davis, Sr.
Solutions Engineer, Faculty Advocate
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Agenda

• Global challenges in Higher Education
• Blackboard Platform Strategy
• The importance of adoption the road to
  transformation
• How do we help you get there?
• Summary of first hour
• Hands on
• QA
• Wrap

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  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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Agenda

• Global challenges in Higher Education
• Blackboard Platform Strategy
• The importance of adoption the road to
  transformation
• How do we help you get there?
• Summary of first hour
• Hands on
• QA
• Wrap

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Four Pillars of Institutional Effectiveness
Supporting the Campus Vision circa 2008 requires
providing support for each of the key pillars
identified in the Bb Leadership Survey.
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Agenda

• Global challenges in Higher Education
• Blackboard Platform Strategy
• The importance of adoption the road to
  transformation
• How do we help you get there?
• Summary of first hour
• Hands on
• QA
• Wrap

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Engagement
Personal Classroom Campus Global Lifelong
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
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Engagement, Assessment
Personal Classroom Campus Global Lifelong
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
Individual Course Program Institution
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Engagement, Assessment
Personal Classroom Campus Global Lifelong
Individual Course Program Institution
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Engagement, Assessment Openness
Personal Classroom Campus Global Lifelong
OPEN SERVICES
OPEN APIs
Individual Course Program Institution
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Engage through the community network
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Assess through the community network
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Developing the Roadmap with the Community
Calcasieu Parish Public Schools
Northern Arizona University
University of Alberta
Seton Hall University
Pearson Education
Paul Fisher
Bonita Bray
Sheryl Abshire
James Farley
Don Carter
Brigham Young University
Grand Rapids Community College
Judge Advocate Generals Legal Center School
Virtual High School
Drexel University
John Morris
Liz Pape
Jon Mott
Kenneth Hess
Eric Kunnen
Utah State University
Sheffield Hallam University
Chemeketa Community College
Your Institution Here
SENA
Eric Kunnen
Louise Thorpe
Kevin Reeve
Your Name Here
Aman Zuluaga
Loraine Schmitt
Blackboard Idea Exchange (BIE) Steering Committee
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In summary
Personal Classroom Campus Global Lifelong
OPEN SERVICES
OPEN APIs
Individual Course Program Institution
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Agenda

• Global challenges in Higher Education
• Blackboard Platform Strategy
• The importance of adoption the road to
  transformation
• How do we help you get there?
• Summary of first hour
• Hands on
• QA
• Wrap

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The role of e-learning

• E-learning does not contribute to achieving our
  institutional mission.
• E-learning is a marginal contributor to achieving
  our institutional mission.
• E-learning is an important contributor to
  achieving our institutional mission.
• E-learning is a critical contributor to achieving
  our institutional mission.

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Diffusion of Innovations(Based on Research by
Everett Rogers and Geoffrey Moore)
Innovators
Early Majority
Late Majority
Traditionalist
Early Adopters
Distribution of User Categories
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Technology adoption S curve
Early Adopters
Innovators
Early Majority
Late Majority
Traditionalist
Number of Users
Time
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Characteristics

• Innovators get out of their way
• Early adopters require little assistance
• Early majority require tangible, personal
  benefit
• Late majority will wait until they must change
• Traditionalist likely will not adopt

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Institutional E-learning lifecycle phases

• When any student or teacher can view
  instructional content, collaborate with
  educators, evaluate academic performance, and
  access learning resources at any time to achieve
  their educational objectives.

INSTITUTIONAL GROWTH

• Commercial enterprise course management system(s)

• A full online campus with learning communities
  and shared digital content resources

• Online courses, organizations, and institutional
  services integrated with back-office systems

• Course web sites

TIME
Phase 5
Phase I
Phase 2
Phase 3
Phase 4
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Blackboard Clients in OntarioHigher Education

• Community Colleges
• Algonquin College
• Centennial College
• Confederation College
• Durham College
• George Brown College
• Georgian College
• Humber College
• La Cité Collégiale
• Loyalist College
• Mohawk College
• Niagara College
• Northern College
• Sault College
• Seneca College
• Sheridan College
• Sir Sandford Fleming
• St. Clair College
• St. Lawrence College

• Universities
• Brock University
• Carleton University
• Lakehead University
• Laurentian University
• McMaster University
• Michener Institute
• Nipissing University
• Queens University
• Royal Military College
• Ryerson University
• Trent University
• University of Guelph
• UOIT
• University of Ottawa
• University of Toronto
• University of Western Ontario
• Wilfrid Laurier University
• York University

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Agenda

• Global challenges in Higher Education
• Blackboard Platform Strategy
• The importance of adoption the road to
  transformation
• How do we help you get there? An open discussion
  on the most critical issues you face.
• Summary of first hour
• Hands on
• QA
• Wrap

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Agenda

• Global challenges in Higher Education
• Blackboard Platform Strategy
• The importance of adoption the road to
  transformation
• How do we help you get there?
• Summary of first hour
• Hands on
• QA
• Wrap

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Blackboard

• A visionary partner
• Offering a broad and deep platform
• Effectively engaging todays student
• A community of
• millions of students
• hundreds and thousands of faculty
• thousands of publishers titles
• hundreds of Building Blocks partners, both Open
  Source and Commercial
• Committed to helping you achieve your mission

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Agenda

• Global challenges in Higher Education
• Blackboard Platform Strategy
• The importance of adoption the road to
  transformation
• How do we help you get there?
• Summary of first hour
• Hands on
• QA
• Wrap