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Blackboard to provide integrated teaching and learning tools to Babson CollegeJun 18, 2012 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- Blackboard, an enterprise technology solutions provider, has announced that, Babson College, has chosen Blackboard to support an integrated set of teaching and learning tools to help expand its online learning capabilities and to create a learning experience for students and faculty. Working with Blackboard, Babson is creating a core technology platform that supports their mission and delivers on student expectations for interactive courses, digital content, mobile learning and online collaboration. Babson's decision to upgrade their learning management system (LMS) to Blackboard Learn Release 9.1 gave them a chance to look at a set of technologies with Release 9.1 as the hub. College officials added Blackboard's mobile apps to create greater access to courses, content and campus services, as well as the company's Web conferencing solution which allows students and faculty to meet and interact virtually for a variety of formal and informal purposes. Each new technology brings new capabilities in its own right. The decision to work with Blackboard was driven in part by a desire to work with a vendor to support a comprehensive set of learning technologies that can be managed and work together as one system to give users a unified experience.. While the Blackboard Collaborate platform has been used to power live video sessions and lectures, instant messaging, virtual office hours and exam proctoring within the LMS, Babson is also seeing use of the platform as a standalone tool. In its first three months of use, 600 live sessions were delivered with Blackboard Collaborate, many focused on enabling students to share and learn from each other and helping faculty and students in participating in online programs to connect before they meet in the classroom. "Having a partner like Blackboard is a smart business decision modernizing our education technology platform has given us further depth and capability to meet student and faculty demand," said Tova Duby, senior manager for eLearning Platform Operations at Babson College. "Having Blackboard technologies support our teaching and learning programs has taken Babson to the next level." http://www.datamonitor.com Republication or redistribution, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without prior written consent. Datamonitor shall not be liable for errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon |