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#BbTLC16 Report - Blackboard product updates

I've been very remiss in my reports from #BbTLC16 , which happened at the beginning of April. But I still have my notes from the sessions, intending to write them up. On Tuesday I sat in on the Blackboard International Product Update Webinar - which covered similar ground to the product update sessions at #BbTLC16 - so I thought I'd take the opportunity to put a few sentences together. The webinar covered three main products: Blackboard Learn , Collaborate Ultra , and mobile solutions Bb Student and Bb Instructor . Blackboard Learn Wade Weichel gave a presentation (at both #BbTLC16 and on the webinar) about the roadmap for the classic VLE. Apparently the focus is to make the learner's experience "more delightful". flickr photo by Pleuntje https://flickr.com/photos/pleuntje/3456892561 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license Blackboard are moving to a regular update schedule, with two major releases each year, and cumulative updates in-between. Q2 2016 was...

Video Solutions at NUIG

We were excited today to see that NUI Galway features in the April edition of Tech & Learning UK (pages 27 and 28). Based on the talk I gave at the Kaltura Education Summit last year, the article describes our deployment and use of the Kaltura building block in our Blackboard VLE, and how staff and students are making good use of video for learning. Thanks to Lisa Bennett of Kaltura Marketing for putting the article together. Tweet