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

Your Name Here

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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