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Assessment in Translation

Guest post from Esther Jubb, Manager, Institutional Assessment for Blackboard Global Services.

Hi, I’m Esther. Greetings from the UK, where I work with Blackboard’s international clients as a strategic consultant and subject matter expert in the area of Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness. As part of an ongoing series of posts on assessment, this post is going to offer the community a comparison of the assessment environment in the UK and the US and offer context to some of the challenges that we’re currently facing. 

Connecting Google Apps Education Edition and Blackboard

I am very fortunate to work with a community of more than 1,000 educational tool developers who recognize the important role technology plays in transforming the educational experience to connect students, instructors and researchers in new ways. Recently, I reflected on some of the ways that several client institutions have been working closely with Blackboard and Google to combine the power of our platforms for more productive teaching and learning experiences. For more information and examples of these integrations, check out my recent post on the Google Enterprise blog: Connecting Google Apps Education Edition with Blackboard If you have additional interest on how you, too, can use Blackboard’s open platform to connect with other systems used around your campus, please visit our developer web site, EduGarage.

Welcome Mark O'Neil

You may have already heard through the grapevine, or via a recent listserv email, that Mark O’Neil has left his post at Dartmouth College, where he worked for the past 12 years as the Blackboard Curricular Systems Engineer, to join Blackboard as a Technical Product Manager on the Product Management team.

We are very excited to welcome Mark to Blackboard! In his new role he will become a champion for the Blackboard community of developers, actively engaging and building relationships with that community, as well as overseeing and executing programs designed to engage Blackboard developers throughout all aspects of the development life-cycle.

For more about Mark’s career and experiences at Dartmouth and his recent transition to Blackboard, check out his post on the Dartmouth Curricular Computing blog and a post from Inside Higher Ed’s Joshua Kim: Blackboard's Smartest Decision.

Look for Mark to become an active voice here on Blackboard Blogs (he’s got some great stuff to share) and don’t forget to follow him on Twitter @mark_oneil.