Ginger Smith

Tool:

Blackboard

Benefits for Faculty:

Blackboard Special Use Course Availability:

• Use Blackboard in creative ways to enhance the learning environment and engage students in critical thinking
• Collaboration among students from different universities for joint case study analysis that, without the Blackboard environment, would have been very difficult to accomplish
• Discussion boards is a useful tool that allows for collaboration among students and faculty asynchronously

Benefits for Students:

• Flexibility
• Collaboration online with students from other schools

Teaching Tips:

"If the media available for teaching aren’t used to the maximum, students have to be encouraged to do it. The [Blackboard course] website is loaded with extra reading. It enhances the richness of the environmental learning that you can have in class. The response to the textbooks and to those assignments are all done online....[This adds] a richness and an extra layer of content and activity to an on-campus course. I think it is the best of blended learning."