This is the second in my series on a first-glance look at the imminent upgrade to Blackboard version 9. Since my first movie on BB9 I’ve had a few people say that the blog tool that is integrated into BB9 is not up to scratch, so I thought I’d do a direct comparison between the [...

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University of Manitoba, during a recent LMS review, selected Angel as its new learning management system. In talking with faculty and others attending presentations by various LMS vendors, a clear “anything but Blackboard” view was evident. Disdain for Blackboard is higher than for any other company in the learning technology field.

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It’s encouraging to see universities adopting different approaches to teaching. While research on the so-called learning sciences is not fully settled, enough is understood about learning to warrant significant reconsideration of how teaching occurs in universities. At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard : The physics department has replaced the traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on, interactive, collaborative learning.

Instead of blackboards, the walls are covered with white boards and huge display

Now is the time for traditional education institutions to focus on digital alternatives. Tips for Higher Ed Institutions: Focus on Distance Education! It has less overhead (both time and resources), it can reach more people; effectively making it a very profitable solutions for your institution. Get rid of Blackboard ! Blackboard is a very costly and poorly designed solution that the majority faculty, students and IT Admins strongly dislike.

Our team has spent over a year preparing for the conversion from Blackboard to Sakai (something I haven’t talked about here too much because we hadn’t told Blackboard we were leaving until recently.... Even some of the most recalcitrant participants acknowledged that some things will be easier for them now than in Blackboard and that Sakai opens up some new possibilities.

I'm trying two new bits of kit at once here, so please bear with me while I figure out how they both work; Blackboard 9 and Camtasia] In preparation to the anticipated upgrade to Blackboard 9 this summer I’ve started to look into the new Blackboard 9 system in some detail, and have produced this ‘first-look’ [...

David Hopkins: Blackboard 8 / myBU: ‘Sign-Up’ Tool This tool was made available in the upgrade to Blackboard vn.8 and is extremely useful; get the students to sign-up to seminar groups themselves (relieves the duty of collecting names on paper, then loosing the paper!) and create groups automatically from the sign-up tool with the students already [...