Blackboard Blogs

Back to School Report Card from Ray

As educators and students head back to school, Ray Henderson, President of Blackboard Learn and a big fan of report cards, provides a progress report on various areas of support. Check out his latest post on RayH blog.

Not Yet Satisfied

The User Experience team in Product Development is tasked with being the advocate for you, Blackboard users. So how do we do that? We ask questions, we watch you use Blackboard software, we read your enhancement requests, we read your bugs reported, we listen to your ideas, we try to replicate what you do in your Blackboard system. With every project we tackle, we aim to increase the amount of user research that serves to influence the design of what is delivered in the product. Here are the types of things we’ve done with you this year:

Gaming and Narration: Fact or Fiction?

 
From Chris Bigenho, Director of Educational Technology, Greenhill School and Rhonda Blackburn, PhD, Associate Provost, Educational Enhancement, The University of Texas at Dallas

It is hard to believe that BbWorld ‘09 is next week. Rhonda and I are both excited about what this year will have to offer. We have been attending these conferences for several years now and each year brings new ideas and possibilities. While I am always interested in learning about the direction of the Blackboard platforms, I personally enjoy making connections with other educators who are looking at creative and powerful ways of changing the face of learning and making teaching and learning more relevant.