Blackboard Support

A robust and effective
learning environment ...

When used in conjunction with best practices for effective teaching and engaged learning, Blackboard can provide a robust and effective learning environment for students.

Read Carmean and Haefner’s (2002) Mind Over Matter: Transforming Course Management Systems into Effective Learning Environments to learn how you can use Blackboard tools to support five core principles of “deeper learning.” (According to the authors, deeper learning occurs when learning is social, active, contextual, engaging, and student-owned).

View this handout by Tonia Malone, Instructional Technology Consultant at California Polytechnic State University, for examples and screenshots of how you can use Blackboard to implement Chickering and Gamson’s Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.

For more ideas and resources about how to use technology to implement principles of effective teaching, visit Using Technology to Improve Learning Outcomes from the TLT Group or read Ten Principles of Effective Teaching and Practical Examples for the Classroom and Blackboard from Bradley University.

Blackboard + Best Practices = Engaged Learning

Learn how Laura Myers, Management Systems, and Chang Liu, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, used Blackboard to support engaging learning experiences for their students.

For examples of how faculty at other universities use Blackboard to enhance teaching and learning, visit Faculty Interviews at the University of Texas at Austin or Faculty Profiles at Duke University.