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The global pandemic has accelerated change in many sectors. In higher education, the rapid change to emergency remote delivery triggered an unprecedented worldwide experiment in online learning. This situation has also taught us a lot, including the need to listen deeply and carefully to students and make a real commitment to offering them the highest quality educational experiences. This commitment will require a laser focus on “design” to remediate some of the challenges that learners reported when learning during the pandemic.

Get students back on track through personalized, proactive outreach relevant to each stage in the learning journey.

Blackboard Academy offers high quality professional development for educators, by educators, through self-paced courses, cohort-model series and stand-alone courses.

Learn how to manage student support at scale, remove barriers to success & improve retention through live, automated and self-service support technologies.

Between March 2020 and March 2021, the United States federal government passed three relief packages that included more than $190 billion of funding for K-12 education. Use this worksheet to identify the challenges your district is facing and how they align with solutions and allowable uses of funding.

For Jacksonville University, meeting students’ educational needs is fundamental to their mission and core to their success. University leaders realized that to attract and retain students, they must offer the premier educational experience expected of a prestigious university. Therefore, Jacksonville University’s leaders sought an educational technology platform that offered flexibility, ease of use, and integration with other campus technology systems—while being straightforward enough for their small team to support reasonably and effectively.

Like most technology companies, we at Blackboard track what’s taking place in other industries. We do so both to inform our own innovation, and also to help us anticipate learner, educator and administrator expectations. While in its early stages, the path to personalization in EdTech will be informed, in many ways, by the journey other industries have taken. Let’s take a look at a few examples.

The massive shift to online learning driven by the COVID-19 global pandemic enabled continuity of education in the near term, while opening the door for education to move forward on a journey toward more personalized experiences.

The Chemistry Department fully integrated McGraw-Hill Connect – a homework and learning management solution – within Blackboard Learn, the university’s learning management system, providing both students and faculty with a unified, easy-to-use learning environment.

Keiser University, one of Florida’s premier private higher education institutions, incorporates a “students first” philosophy into all it does, both inside and outside the classroom. So, whether Keiser’s leaders were working to enhance courses, ensure programs were achieving the right student outcomes, or positioning faculty to be in lockstep with each student’s progress, one thing was clear—Keiser needed an integrated educational technology platform that could support the depth and breadth of their efforts.

George Brown College’s (GBC) administration is highly focused on reimagining and providing learner-centered experiences, as outlined in their Vision 2030, Strategy 2022 Plan. Consequently, a core component of the plan—the student’s digital experience— immediately became a top priority. For George Brown’s Digital Learning Environment (DLE) team, this translates into a heightened emphasis on providing students with a consistent, barrierless, and impactful digital experience—one that spans the complete student lifecycle.

The Navy Professional Development Center stood up an online learning program during this pandemic. Within 2 short months, they were able to deploy content, train instructors, build courseware and launch this in the Cloud for delivery across their entire student workforce.

Join our webinar and hear from the Director of the Navy Reserve Professional Development Center, Donald Harmon as he discusses how his team set up an online program. Also hear from Michael Ball, security expert as he explains Blackboard’s security and FedRAMP authorization.