Blackboard Learn Release 9

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Blackboard Learn Release 9

• Presented by
• Melissa Anderson, Director, Solutions Engineering
• Blackboard, Inc.
• Adjunct Faculty, Masters in Educational
  Technology
• Pepperdine University

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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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Blackboard Learn Packages

• Blackboard Learn for Course Delivery
• Blackboard Learn for Community Engagement
• Blackboard Learn for Academic Collaboration
• Blackboard Learn for Outcomes Assessment
• Blackboard Learn for Portfolio Management
• Currently for Web CT Vista Clients only

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Blackboard Learn for Course Delivery

• Common Challenges
• Are you struggling to keep non-traditional
  students engaged?
• Are your completion rates declining?
• Are you pressured to deliver increasingly
  personalized ways to teach and learn?

Solution Blackboard Learn for Course Delivery
provides the core teaching and learning tools to
support delivery of online courses from
supplemental to hybrid to fully online.
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Blackboard Learn for Community Engagement

• Common Challenges
• Are you struggling with engaging students beyond
  the classroom?
• Are your students having difficulties managing
  differing aspects of their lives?
• Do you need to communicate differently with your
  differing constituencies?

Solution Blackboard Learn for Community
Engagement builds on the Course Delivery
capabilities and supports engagement of your
education community beyond the classroom.
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Blackboard Learn for Academic Collaboration

• Common Challenges
• Are your educators having trouble sharing
  learning and course resources?
• Are scarce IT resources preventing collaboration
  between teaching staff?
• Is valuable learning content getting lost in the
  system?

Solution Blackboard Learn for Academic
Collaboration combines powerful course delivery
tools, community engagement capabilities and
learning content management features. The result
is a platform that enables full academic
collaboration both in and out of the classroom.
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Blackboard Learn for Outcomes Assessment

• Common Challenges
• Do you understand how your curriculum and student
  learning standards are aligned with internal and
  external expectations?
• Can you answer the question What are our
  students really learning?
• Are you struggling to compile data to meet
  accountability requirements, internal and
  external?

Solution Blackboard Learn for Outcomes
Assessment combines a powerful platform for
teaching, learning and academic community
collaboration with assessment tools to help you
improve the quality of your educational outcomes
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Blackboard Learn for Portfolio Management

• Common Challenges
• Are your students and staff demanding a single
  place to manage the growing volume of evidence
  and reflection-based learning?
• Are you struggling to increase access for
  non-conventional learners?
• Is assessing learning outside of the classroom
  keeping you awake at night?

Solution Blackboard Learn for Portfolio
Management builds on the course delivery tools
with powerful capabilities that put your students
at the center of their learning
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Whats New Highlights in Release 9.0

• Engagement
• Updated Web 2.0 Interface
• Enhanced Accessibility
• Blogs and Journals
• Improved Group Tools
• Community Engagement and Academic Collaboration

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Lets See Blackboard Learn Release 9!
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