Blackboard Adding Value to Staff Development
by Harry McCarry

The Belfast Institute’s staff development service has been keen to ensure all staff are comfortable with new technologies to remove barriers to learning. The use of Blackboard has been a strategic tool in helping to achieve this. We accept the premise that staff can be helped to grasp such benefits if they can also experience Blackboard from a student’s perspective.
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The Role of the Learning Technologist
by Barbara Newlands

The role of the learning technologist is vital to the success of e-learning. Our work which brings together pedagogy and technology ensures that many innovative projects enhance learning and teaching.
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Blackboard - the first steps: a general overview of the first stages of VLE implementation in a large FE college
by Dick Cady

One question that has nagged at us since we started the VLE route is how to not only make it usable but also to have a strong ‘repetition factor’, so that students and staff would want to come back to it. It has challenged our way of seeing what learning was about and trying to achieve this has been a large factor in each of the courses we have run.
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