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Learning Academy > Learn Bb > Blackboard and 7 Principles of Best Practice

This page contains some potential ideas around leveraging Blackboard to help meet Chickering and Gamson's Seven Principles of Good Practice in higher education.

  1. Encourages Student/Faculty Contact
    • Discussion Board
    • Email
    • Pronto Instant Messaging
    • Voice email
    • Announcements
    • Video Orientation and Welcome Messages
    • Podcasting
  2. Encourages Cooperation among Students
    • Powerpoint Projects – Groups
    • Blackboard Group Pages
    • Pronto Group Messaging Chats
    • Blackboard Groups + Scholar Bookmarking
    • Wikis
    • Discussion Board
  3. Encourages Active Learning
    • Discussion Board/Journals/Blog
    • Role Play using Video
    • Games, Jeopardy, Crossword Puzzles using StudyMate
    • Student Response System Clickers and Powerpoint
    • Video – New Perspectives and Ideas
    • External Links
  4. Give Prompt Feedback
    • Blackboard Assessments
    • Assignments
    • Online Comments
    • SafeAssign – Antiplagiarism
    • Gradebook – allows continuous updates for students
    • Discussion Board – allows finishing and extending classroom discussions
    • MS Word – track changes, annotations, comments exchanged through Bb's assignment tool
    • Email
    • Wikis/Blogs/Portfolios
  5. Emphasizes Time on Task
    • Web links – access to resources, quick, additional supplemental
    • Computer Lab – Active
    • Providing estimated times on online activities
    • Extend classroom-based activities online
    • Adaptive Release
    • Deadlines/Availability
    • Bb assignments – turn it in online is quicker and easier
  6. Communicates High Expectations
    • Powerpoint and Presentations
    • Group Work and Example Student Work
    • Wiki Participation
    • Outside of class access to Bb and Computer – extend learning outside of classroom
    • Excel – graphs
    • Adaptive Release
    • Praise on Discussion Board increases Participation
    • Gradebook – Discussion – learning outside of the specific classroom time
  7. Respects Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning
    • Videos
    • Animations
    • Group Work
    • Discussion Board
    • Powerpoint
    • Podcasting and Groupwork
    • Sensitive to Students with Difference levels of Tech Experience
    • Encourage and Provide links for Discovery using Bb Scholar


Updated on 10-OCT-07
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