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Karsten Sommer

Blackboard Connector and data synchronisation - 0 views

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    "Blackboard Connector automatically synchronizes courses, students and Instructors between Blackboard and Perception. Additions and changes made in Blackboard are copied to Perception, but the synchronization is one-way"
Karsten Sommer

Blackboard Announcement: Blackboard Education Open Source Services - 3 views

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    Blackboard Education Open Source Services
Robyn Jay

Blackboard Mobile puts campus in the palm of your hand - building43 - 0 views

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    ""I was standing in line in a coffee shop on campus, and noticed that many people these days are using smartphones," says Kayvon Beykpour, vice-president of Blackboard Mobile. "Students are doing all kinds of things with them: they're on Facebook, checking email, making phone calls. People were doing just about everything except interacting with the university, which we thought was a bit of a disconnect. There's so many things that, as a student, you need to do every day, whether it's registering for a course, or finding your way around campus, or checking the directory or athletics scores-and they're all traditionally different places. Why not create a really sophisticated, really elegant, and really beautiful app that brings all those different services together in one place, and makes it really usable for the student, for the faculty, for the tourist? And that's what our platform does.""
Bronwyn Davies

Long Island Uni - Blackboard Guides - 2 views

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    Blackboard9 pdf files for "getting started", "course content", "creating assignments", "building a test", Plus a series of How To Videos
Robyn Jay

A critical examination of Blackboard's e-learning environment - Coopman - 3 views

  • teaching/learning as performance and teaching/learning as text
  • perceived institutional presence — the degree to which online learners felt connected to the university — was positively related to learning outcomes, satisfaction with the course, and intent to stay in the program.
  • students in the traditional classes interacted with each other far less than those in the hybrid (Web–enhanced) classes
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  • quality of interaction in online discussions, rather than quantity, may be the better predictor of student achievement
  • Interrogating the structure of learning management systems such as Blackboard brings to light the unnoticed ways in which the software frames online classroom interaction
  • Rose (2004) argued in her critique of learning management systems that the mediated tools instructors use to teach their classes are not value–free. The author lamented that “there is no acknowledgment of the fundamental transformations that must be wreaked upon content imported into platforms such as WebCT and Blackboard, nor of the fact that the very structure of these systems constrains instructional possibilities and decision–making.” [4] Like a highly bureaucratic organization, once a structure is built into a learning management system, changing the structure becomes unimaginable (Sandvig, 2006).
  • Online class discussions typically involve more student–student interaction and less instructor–student interaction. Lobel, et al. (2005) found that instructors were the center of the interaction network during in person discussions whereas the group was the center during online discussions. Blackboard’s discussion feature allows students to interact directly with each other, bypassing the instructor. However, the degree of structural flexibility in a Blackboard discussion board resides to a large extent in the decisions the instructor makes. May students attach files? May students start new discussion threads? May students post anonymously? Do they rate each other’s messages? What is the rating system?
  • What has changed is the instructor’s increased ability to track students’ use of the class Web site: number of messages posted, number of messages read, and how many times various pages or sections are accessed. Mullen (2002) argued that this type of information seems to provide an objective measure of student engagement, but in fact creates a dangerously decontextualized, essentialized image of a class in which levels of “participation” stand in for evidence of learning having taken place. Students are treated not as learners, as partners in an educational enterprise, but as users
  • “The brave new world of digital education promises greater access, increased democratic participation, and the transcendence of discrimination through pure minds. We must interrogate the actuality of these hypes: who has access, is participation online transformative, and is transcendence of difference a goal of progressive pedagogies?” [8]
Karsten Sommer

Wimba Classroom Support via TELT UNSW Blackboard site - 1 views

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    Wimba Classroom quick step instructions for Blackboard
anonymous

pdf document - 0 views

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    Blackboard screen reader tutorial
Robyn Jay

Project Blackbird: Deploying Condor in a Blackboard Environment (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | ... - 0 views

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    "Condor architecture on the Blackboard"
Karsten Sommer

NetSpot, Moodlerooms and Blackboard join forces - 1 views

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    NetSpot, Moodlerooms and Blackboard join forces to form the foundation of a Global Open Source Services Group, supporting open source education projects including Moodle.
Karsten Sommer

Events: A Research Study on the Use of a Virtual Classroom: Wimba and BB - 1 views

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    "Southern Miss decided to investigate the feasibility of adding a tool to our current Learning Management System, Blackboard, that would increase opportunities for student-to-instructor and student-to-student interaction. After auditioning applications from several different companies, Southern Miss decided that Wimba Classroom was the best fit for the goals and objectives it had set out to achieve. "
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