Yesterday’s chalkboard served a less complicated world than today, in a time before the worlds of economics, business and politics intersected and began to demand that educators and…
Students today are dramatically different from students ten years ago. They’re not attending college just for a degree and “the college experience;” they want assurance of a job…
In an effort to better understand the challenges associated with retention and graduation, Blackboard surveyed hundreds of higher ed administrators and students from public, private and two-year community…
Rapid changes in student demographics, advancements in technology, and alternative learning models are forcing a rethink about how higher education interacts with—and supports—its students. Find out what role…
Today’s modern learning management system (LMS) isn’t just a repository for storing, managing, and delivering course materials—it’s a fully-featured platform, designed to increase student engagement and retention. We…
Choosing a Learning Management Systems (LMS) that will work for your institution, now and in the future, can be a challenge, especially as the LMS has moved well…
Reinventing and transforming education begins by knowing and understanding the universe of today’s learners. Who are today’s students? What technologies do they use and how? What motivates them…
With increasing demand for online learning coming from both distance learners and on-campus students, colleges and universities must provide a synchronous learning platform. Beyond satisfying this need, institutions…
Free Guide: More than 80% of IT leadership consider analytics a priority for higher education’s continued success. In this guide, we have drawn on the experience of a…
75% of the country now bases funding on performance. Download this free Ebook, written by student retention specialist Terianne Sousa, and learn how to create and implement a…