From an administrator's viewpoint, we want a system that will communicate to the academic and administrative information systems back-end. Blackboard does that with the Oracle database system that many large organizations like NTU currently use. This will provide the ability to integrate with systems containing information of our students, thus meeting our needs to integrate that academic function with administrative tasks and the community. This will enable us to enter into meaningful distance education collaborations when future opportunities arise. Having done all that infra-structure considerations, the next part is to harness this Internet tool and instructional technology with the professors and students.
Student learns best through interactivity.
On-line teaching enables flexible access that allows students to progress at own pace. CED will be organizing seminars and workshops that will inform and update the academic community of the deployment of Blackboard. You can be assured that online teaching and learning with Blackboard is here to stay. They are the barriers of habit, both individual and institutional.