The six pillars of innovation at Blackboard
Mark Strassman,
Blackboard,
Sept 01, 2015
If you're wondering where Blackboard plans to go with technology development in the future, these six pillars might be a guide (quoted):
- Focus on the learner: Be the advocate for the 'new learner' and integrate this thinking into the way we build products and solutions
- Support life-long learning: Commit to supporting the new learner on their entire life-long journey
- Drive design thinking: Build delightful user experiences that respond to learners' emotional needs
- Build workflows, not products: Build solutions for learner workflows
- Embrace the cloud: Provide an accessible, up-to-date, and always-on environment
- Make data actionable with integrated data and analytics
I think these are all reasonable objectives, though of course it's in the details software survives or fails. Can Blackboard make the shift from focusing on institutions and publishers to individual learners? It's an open question.
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