Blackboard and Vanderbilt University Partner on iTunes U Integration for Blackboard Learn
15 Luglio 2009 - 10:10PM
PR Newswire (US)
Faculty, Students Can Access Multimedia Content Within Their
Existing Online Courses WASHINGTON, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB), a global leader in education
technology, today announced that it has partnered with Vanderbilt
University Library to make their integration for Apple's iTunes U
application available to the Blackboard client community, providing
a popular tool to other institutions looking to support the use of
multimedia content in courses. Vanderbilt has created free, open
source access to its recently upgraded iTunes U integration,
developed in collaboration with a group of other campuses and
consultants from Blackboard and Apple. The integration enables
faculty and students to access audio, video and other multimedia
content from iTunes U within their existing courses and with their
existing logins through the Blackboard Learn(TM) platform. At
Vanderbilt, "public" resources on iTunes U also include campus
news, music, sports and special events. All of the content can be
downloaded and played on personal computers as well as mobile
devices. A similar application for iTunes U was developed by The
College at Brockport, State University of New York (SUNY) and is
freely available to all ANGEL Learning institutions (ANGEL was
acquired by Blackboard in May). "We found that an increasing number
of faculty wanted to use multimedia in their classes - everything
from capturing lectures to developing and sharing multimedia
presentations for students," said Cindy Franco, Online Access to
Knowledge Manager at Vanderbilt. "We looked at a number of
solutions but they all had limitations. Working with iTunes U gave
us an efficient way to share content within our existing system and
tied to our courses so faculty and students can use it easily." The
announcement was made at BbWorld , the annual meeting of
Blackboard's user and developer communities, and coincides with the
launch of the Blackboard's Extensions(TM) Web site. At the site,
the new iTunes U integration joins hundreds of free, paid and open
source applications built by Blackboard developers, institutions
and third parties to extend and enhance the Blackboard platform, as
well as a wealth of digital content and multimedia resources made
available by Blackboard's content partners. Blackboard clients can
now access all active extensions through one portal, allowing users
to customize and enhance their learning platform and find solutions
to unique problems. "The Vanderbilt and Brockport applications are
representative of the wide range of innovations and developments
unique to our community that help Blackboard and ANGEL institutions
go farther, faster," said Ray Henderson, President of Blackboard
Learn. "These efforts started because of a specific campus need,
but can now support teachers and students worldwide in their
efforts to enrich the learning experience with multimedia content."
While interest in multimedia content has grown dramatically,
resources to organize and access that content easily and
effectively have become more important. The integrations developed
by Vanderbilt and Brockport give institutions the ability to more
effectively manage and create access to multimedia content
developed by instructors and students, as well as more than 175,000
other educational audio and video files on iTunes. Implementing and
using the applications require no additional investment of
resources or staff. "We started this integration to meet the need
of students and teachers to have access to multimedia content that
was being created to expand the traditional course curriculum,"
said Brendan Post, Learning Systems Team Leader at Brockport.
"Interest grew beyond our campus, which validated for us the
importance of being part of a larger community. We hope this effort
will enable collaboration between institutions to broaden our
content offerings in the near future." For more information about
Blackboard Extensions, please visit
http://www.blackboardextensions.com/. About Blackboard Inc.
Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBB) is a global leader in enterprise
technology and innovative solutions that improve the experience of
millions of students and learners around the world every day.
Blackboard's solutions allow thousands of higher education, K-12,
professional, corporate, and government organizations to extend
teaching and learning online, facilitate campus commerce and
security, and communicate more effectively with their communities.
Founded in 1997, Blackboard is headquartered in Washington, D.C.,
with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Any
statements in this press release about future expectations, plans
and prospects for Blackboard and other statements containing the
words "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will," and
similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within
the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by
such forward-looking statements as a result of various important
factors, including the factors discussed in the "Risk Factors"
section of our Form 10-Q filed on May 7, 2009 with the SEC. In
addition, the forward-looking statements included in this press
release represent the Company's views as of July 15, 2009. The
Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments will
cause the Company's views to change. However, while the Company may
elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in
the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do
so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as
representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to July
15, 2009. iTunes is a registered trademark of Apple Inc.
DATASOURCE: Blackboard Inc. CONTACT: Matthew Maurer of Blackboard
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