Blackboard.com Goes Back To School with More Than 9,600 Instructors, in Every State and in 60 Countries.WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1999-- Monthly page views jump five-fold to nearly 2 million since June Blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. Inc.'s "Universal Learning Solutions" platform suite now includes more than 300,000 learners worldwide Blackboard.com(SM), a service made available by Blackboard Inc., a leading online education company that provides the industry's most popular platform for teaching and learning over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , today announced that it is going back to school this year as the fastest growing service of its kind. Only six months after its launch, more than 9,600 instructors, teaching more than 9,000 courses in every state and in 60 countries have made Blackboard.com their Internet classroom. Also, Blackboard.com's page views increased five-fold since June to nearly 2 million per month. Through this free service, instructors can post course work online, assess student participation, track grades, issue assignments, exchange computer files with students and easily monitor the progress of each learner. Students can view assignments online, submit work, send and receive e-mail, complete tests, chat in study groups and more. Courses on Blackboard.com range from academic studies serving higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. and K-12 students to hobbyist hob·by 1 n. pl. hob·bies An activity or interest pursued outside one's regular occupation and engaged in primarily for pleasure. and vocational courses serving lifelong learners. Many teachers use Blackboard.com to enhance their classroom learning. "Blackboard.com provides an exciting complement to my classroom instruction," said Sue Cobern, a tenth-grade chemistry teacher at Wellesley High School Wellesley High School is a public high school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, educating grades 9 through 12. Its current principal is Dr. Andrew Kehough, who assumed the position in 2007 after the retirement of Ms. Rena Mirkin [1]. in Wellesley, MA. "It gives my students an interactive environment where they can exchange information and supplement their face-to-face discussions with online study group chats at any time. Also, it helps parents stay in touch with what their children are doing in school." Blackboard.com is part of the company's "Universal Learning Solutions," suite of products and services. The ULS ULS Universal Licensing System ULS Universidad de La Serena (Chile) ULS Ultimate Limit State (British steelwork standard) ULS Ultra Low Sulfur (vehicle fuel) suite enables educators to host single-course Web sites with Blackboard.com, multiple course Web sites with Blackboard CourseInfo(TM) and fully integrated solutions with Blackboard Campus(TM). More than 300,000 learners at about 1,000 colleges, universities and K-12 schools use one or more of the ULS software platforms. "The fast adoption of Blackboard.com as the leading Web site for teaching and learning online is due to Blackboard's strong focus on creating the best Internet software application for enhancing the educational process," said Michael Chasen, president of Web Enterprises and co-founder of Blackboard. "With 40 to 70 new course Web sites being posted by individual faculty members every day, Blackboard.com is well positioned for continued growth. " About Blackboard Inc. Blackboard Inc. is a leading online education company that provides the industry's most popular platform for teaching and learning over the Internet. Blackboard is the only company to provide "Universal Learning Solutions," a roadmap for educators to bring single courses, multiple courses and entire campuses online. Blackboard's Universal Learning Solutions supports single course Web sites with Blackboard.com(SM), multiple course Web sites with Blackboard CourseInfo(TM), and entire online campuses with Blackboard Campus(TM). Blackboard customers include about 1,000 leading institutions such as Arizona State University Arizona State University, at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. , Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. , Georgetown University Georgetown University, in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C.; Jesuit; coeducational; founded 1789 by John Carroll, chartered 1815, inc. 1844. Its law and medical schools are noteworthy, and its archives are especially rich in letters and manuscripts by and , Maricopa Community College District, the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. , and the College of William & Mary as well as K-12 schools. Additional information about Blackboard can be found at http://www.blackboard.com/company. (a) Some instructors are teaching more than one online course and some users are utilizing more than one course Web site. |
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