Evolving Blackboard Communities: Progressing into the Future   25 June 2005

The Blackboard Communities of Practice has evolved from a partnership between Blackboard Users. Today, Blackboard User Groups have successfully formed in the US (27 total groups) and internationally (6 groups). These groups have organized as independent entities from the company Blackboard, Inc., while striving for an on-going partnership with Bb…
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The Instructional Design Portfolio   22 June 2005

Four years after Blackboard was adopted at the University of Kansas (KU), the Instructional Development and Support (IDS) unit wanted to assess faculty use of the courseware and then design an approach to encourage more innovation. The resulting partnership project, implemented in spring semester 2004, received such praise from faculty and students that IDS staff will expand their work in this area in the future ...
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Evolving Faculty Development and Support: A Model for Responding to Change   18 January 2005

A major challenge in faculty development is moving faculty from technical-skills training to consideration of the pedagogical potential and implications of digital technologies. We believe that Boise State University’s 7-year evolution from skills training to curricular development to technology-infused pedagogical design provides a model for structuring faculty development efforts at other institutions…
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Blackboard Support Site at Canterbury Christ Church   09 October 2004

Take a look at the documentation and resources included in the support site ...
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Best Practices for Supporting Blackboard   09 October 2004

Brigham Young University adopted Blackboard in 1999 (when it was still known as CourseInfo). Like most institutions adopting course management systems in the late 1990s, the purchase and implementation of CourseInfo was treated as an experiment. Consequently, little thought was given to long-term support plans ...
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