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Calculate the ROI of Your Association’s Online Learning Programs
What results and returns could your association see from online learning? Associations like yours are facing more competition than ever from every direction—higher education institutions, third-party training providers, and even…
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Reaching learners around the world
The Irish Deaf Society expands its geographic reach and transforms the learning experience for signing members through online classes and course content delivered through D2L Brightspace.
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Get Started with CBE
Download the guide… If your institution is just beginning to explore CBE or in the planning stages for a CBE program, this is the guide you’ll need. It will show you:…
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Engaging every learner
Each year, 2,100 students enroll in Dr. Jaclyn Broadbent’s first-year blended Health Behaviour class. It’s a daunting number for any professor—but Dr. Broadbent of Deakin University in Australia, isn’t just any lecturer. Although her students come from four different campuses and represent varying backgrounds and skill sets, she’s determined to get through to each and every one.
To set itself apart, a community college creates a different kind of MOOC
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are valued for their ability to reach an international audience through the web and blend traditional educational tools, such as videos, with open forums for discussion to create rich academic communities. As of early 2013, the only MOOCs offered in Canada were typically at the university level. They were theory-based and led by academics. Could a community college compete? Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, wanted to be the first to find out.
Going beyond compliance to emphasize accessibility in the learning experience
Serving more than 1.3 million college-age residents across five counties, Portland Community College (PCC) is Oregon’s largest multi-campus higher education institution. It is divided into four comprehensive campuses, seven centers, and dozens of independent locations throughout the community.
Enabling Employees to Meet Industry Compliance Standards
Founded in 1844, Babcock & Wilcox Canada Ltd. (B&W Canada) is a world leader in the engineering, manufacturing, service and, construction of steam generation and associated equipment for utilities and industrial applications. More specifically, the company offers design, engineering, manufacturing, construction, and services to nuclear, thermal power, and industrial clients around the world. Headquartered in Cambridge, Ontario, B&W Canada employs approximately 800 employees across Canada.
Brightspace helped Oral Roberts University improve retention.
Oral Roberts University (ORU)—located in Tulsa, Oklahoma—is an interdenominational Christian liberal arts university founded in 1963 by evangelist Oral Roberts. ORU was founded to educate the whole person: mind, body, and spirit. A comprehensive university dedicated to student outcomes, ORU offers more than 65 undergraduate majors as well as 14 masters-level programs and two doctoral degrees. The Tulsa campus is home to students from all 50 U.S. states and 83 countries. Faculty members educated at the nation’s top graduate schools serve as academic, professional, and spiritual mentors to this diverse student population.
A flexible learning platform gives all students access to enriched resources
The only downside of teachers at the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) loving their new Web 2.0 tools was that they loved a very wide variety of them. They all had different usernames, passwords, and URLs. While the Board used a standardized blogging platform built in-house, they were also branching out in different areas to use different Learning Management System (LMS) tools. That meant they were unable to support one another and, since they were being hosted in a variety of spaces, it was next to impossible for the Board to provide guidance.
Keeping rural students on course
In 2003, Alabama was ranked among the lowest-performing states for producing high school and college graduates. Students in rural and impoverished areas were dropping out of high school in droves—not surprising considering the lack of teachers and very limited access to the “Advanced Placement” courses that improve student success in both college and career. Just over ten years later, the changes have been dramatic. With the implementation of the ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide) Distance Learning program, the state is now leveraging technology to help impact student success.
Teachers become the students
Through an agreement with the Ontario Ministry of Education, Brightspace is available to school boards across the province to support online and blended learning programs. The London District Catholic School Board (LDCSB) is one board taking full advantage of the program and is now extending its use of Brightspace to leverage the Learning Management System (LMS) for the delivery of professional learning curriculum to staff, teachers, and principals.
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