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About Blackboard
At more than 3,300 institutions in more than 70 countries, students, teachers,
and administrators are collaborating in online teaching and learning environments
powered by Blackboard. Whether you are a novice or expert when it comes
to technology, you will find that Blackboard's online learning platform
will have a dramatic impact on the way you teach and your students learn.
Blackboard's Products
Blackboard 5SM is a comprehensive and flexible e-Learning software platform
that delivers a course management system, customisable institution-wide
portals, online communities, and an advanced architecture that allows
for Web-based integration of multiple administrative systems. Three different
levels of Blackboard 5 will be available with our course cartridges:
Level One - Course Manager: The base
level of Blackboard 5 is an improved version of the popular, award-winning
course management system used by colleges, universities, K-12 schools
and other organisations around the globe. Built from the ground up for
teaching and learning, the Blackboard 5 Course Manager provides the following
core features and functionality:
· Personal information management tools
· Course content management tools
· Course communication and collaboration tools
· Assessment tools
· Academic Web resources
· Course management tools
· System management tools
Level Two - Course & Portal Manager:
Adds flexible portal modules that provide a personalised gateway to the
Internet, seamless online campus communities, and enhanced capabilities
for tailored institutional branding.
· Enterprise database support
· Customisable portal modules and information services
· Web-based e-mail system
· Community management
· Institutional services management
· Extended customisation for institutional branding
· Institution-wide content sharing and management
· Course e-commerce management
Level Three - Advanced Course & Portal
Manager: Adds advanced integration and domain management capabilities
to complete the full online campus.
· Snapshot user management API
· Event-driven (real-time) user management API
· End user authentication (security) API
· Network protocol for passing user authentication data
For additional information on Blackboard 5 product and features please
visit http://www.blackboard.com
About the Partnership
Pearson Education makes its class-tested online course content available
in Blackboard's products and easy-to-use interface. These courses contain
web-based content and resources such as online study guides, assessment
databanks, and lecture resource material. Pearson Education's abundant
online content, combined with Blackboard's popular tools and interface,
result in robust web-based courses that are easy to implement, manage,
and use Ð taking your courses to new heights in student interaction and
learning.
These course management solutions range from enabling you to quickly add
an online component to your campus-based course to providing you with
a sophisticated technology base for total customisation, scalability,
and integration into your distance learning courses.
Use the links below to view Online Courses
in the following disciplines:
Accounting,
Finance and Taxation
Anthropology
Applications
Software
Biology
Business
Law
Business
and Management
Chemistry
Computer
Concepts
Computer
Science
Decision
Science
Economics
Education
Electronics
and Computer Technology
Engineering
Marketing
MIS
Physics
Politics
Psychology
Sociology
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