The agreement brings educational technology solutions from Academic Systems and Blackboard to FVC, which helps provide access to 135,000 distance learners in approximately 2,500 courses, with growing numbers of these opportunities made available online. FVC seeks to assist Florida postsecondary institutions in providing affordable access to quality learning opportunities and services by creating a cooperative atmosphere that will lead to a seamless distance learning experience for students.
Instructors can also integrate the modules with their own online instructional materials.
Blackboard 5 e-Education platform . Instructors can then develop their courses on the Blackboard platform to increase and strengthen their e-Education efforts. Blackboard 5 delivers a software infrastructure built solidly on Blackboard's course management system technology and then extends a broader platform for creating a total campus portal. This agreement represents a unique opportunity for schools to take advantage of some of the best tools available for online learning. For example, an economics professor no longer has to take valuable class time away from his core topic in order to help students review subjects that they should already know before beginning the economics class.