Avoiding costs with every click
By supplementing our LMS with a collaborative learning platform, we are now able to provide faculty with a new, innovative outlet to meet, interact, plan, and engage while avoiding tremendous costs.
The savings start with travel: If one faculty member from each region made arrangements to gather for a planning session, which equates to 14 people, we would be required to provide a minimum of $2,000 per meeting for travel reimbursements. Every time faculty members meet over our digital collaboration platform, we avoid the unnecessary $2,000 cost; time saved is dollars saved.
By using audio, video, and IM as engagement tools, there’s a huge time recovery.
For Ivy Tech’s faculty and administrators, the drive from Evansville to Indianapolis takes more than three hours each way. By collaborating online, we’re able to give our faculty back a six- to seven-hour window of time to meet in a much more productive way.
Enabling effective meetings – anytime, anywhere – is a chief benefit for our instructional program.
The benefits of being able to provide direct access to digital collaboration tools for faculty have also eliminated a range of other processes that were a burden from a cost and time savings perspective.
Ivy Tech welcomes 25,000 new students each semester and anywhere from 300 to 600 new faculty during the same period of time. Because Blackboard Collaborate is built directly into Blackboard Learn, we can put all of our new materials in a single access point.
Our administrators no longer need to give faculty extraneous information to access a range of procedural and course-centric materials. Since faculty members have already received training on our software tools, we can tell them where to go for access and they’re all set.
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