Unveiling Blackboard’s Latest Developments  Ballroom 3:30 – 5pm

  1. Your Needs challenges and opportunities
  2. Uniquely addressing needs
  3. Committement to fundamentals

Challenges
k12 – engaging families to improve student achievement, different funding models
higher ed – enrollment, retention, ROI, post traditional learner
corporate – addressing skills gap
all of these are different and unique..needs are evolving and changing over time.

Blackboard addressing uniquely – Helping Students Succeed

  • Deliver thoughtful and relavent info across portfolio
  • Breadth and broad reach of portfolio 19k customers, 100 million users, 100 countries
  • Deep insights about world of learner – listening to you, looking at datasets, understanding our users, convert insights into innovations

New Products – Blackboard Planner, Blackboard Advise, Blackboard Predict
Investing 350million dollars into innovation of core teaching and learning products and rest of Blackboard’s Portfolio.

Commitment to Fundamentals

  • Develop and Deliver – established total transparency from scrum teams to Board of Directors (visibility into product development activities), consolidation of strategy, marketing.
  • Support Customers – (operational excellence and improving customer experience).
  • Innovate – investing in innovation at scale…partner that meets your evolving needs
  • Communicate – clear, open and regular communication and that includes listening.

 

Product Strategy

Portfolio capabilities – learner interacts with admin, support staff, counselors, employers, advisors, classmates, teachers/faculty, parents

Core of student success mission is driving learning outcomes.  Core of Blackboard portfolio is Teaching and Learning products.    2 most prevalent LMSs – Blackboard & Moodlerooms.

Embedded learning analytics, world class collaboration and mobile tools are also part of portfolio.

K12 – parental and community involvement is fundamental to drive student success.

Solution Set of student lifecycle services – Student Account Support, Helpdesk support, retention and enrollment services.

Powerful Insights – Community input, data science and empathetic research

Community of Input – that’s us 19k customers a community of practice, surveys, technical previews, customer research groups, innovative teaching series.

Data Science – John Whittmer “Dr. John” -7 tb of learning data, 1,200 institutions, 35m learners and teachers, 7m courses, 2.7billion Lms sessions – Looking at specific research questions and/or broad trends.  Blackboard doesn’t own data…this is our data.

Collaborate Data – Engagement Metric (across, chat, audio, video, app share) Students can get engagement score.  Session engagement timeline.

Empathetic Research – Matt Franks – We are taking a user-centered approach in designing our emergent products.  Understanding what people do and why do they do it?

Activity Stream – entry point for students in Bb Student and Ultra (came from empathetic research of students.

1 Learn, 2 Experiences, 3 Deployments

Shared code, ultra and 9.1, self-hosted, managed hosted, SaaS

Roadmap – Where we are

  • Quality – hundreds of bug fixes, updated tech, unified code and simplified releases
  • Enhancements – CBE
  • Mobile Support – Bb Student available to all customers, expired by ultra experience avialable now

What’s next with Original Experience of Learn

  • Attendance Record (track attendance within learn – optional provide a grade and export)
  • API Dev Portal – Restful APIs available

What’s next with Ultra Experience of Learn

  • Educator Preview (preview.blackboard.com)
  • updates on Ultra
    bbultra
  • granularity of control of ultra adoption

 

 

 

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