About a month ago, we convened the Product Development Partners for the first development project of the Blackboard Beyond Initiative. We've already covered a lot really useful ground in a relatively short amount of time, including some high level discussions like product strategy and design reviews, right down to individual feature names and other more detailed topics. But some of the most interesting conversations that we've had seem to come to the same conclusion of, "we're not in Kansas anymore". What I mean is that the web properties coming out of the Beyond Initiative are really going to be quite different from prior Blackboard product adoption experiences, and it seems that we don't fully realize how deeply ingrained expectations may be based on some of those past experiences.
Here's one example of what I'm talking about.
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Hi – my name is Neil Allison and this is my first post to the Blackboard Educate Innovate blog. I joined Blackboard a few months ago as a Director in the Product Marketing Group focused on the upcoming Blackboard Outcomes System.
If you haven’t heard about the Blackboard Outcomes System, you’ll be hearing a lot more over the next few months as we prepare to launch this exciting new solution.
For now, I wanted to pop in on the blog to introduce myself as a new poster and give a quick summary about a thought-provoking seminar Seton Hall University hosted with Blackboard last week on a topic of key concern to our clients – outcomes assessment.
The session took place in the Chancellor’s Suite at the University Center on Seton Hall’s South Orange campus – just 14 miles from New York City in northern New Jersey. Leaders from a dozen colleges and universities in New Jersey and New York joined executives from Blackboard on campus for the discussion.
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