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Blackboard and Nuventive Announce Building Blocks Partnership to Integrate Electronic Portfolios with the Blackboard Learning System

 

2/12/2003 , Washington, D.C. - Blackboard Inc., a leading enterprise software company for e-Education, and Nuventive, which provides comprehensive assessment and portfolio solutions for higher education, have announced a collaboration through the Blackboard Building Blocks™ program to integrate the Nuventive iWebfolio electronic portfolio software with the Blackboard Learning System™.

 

Nuventive’s iWebfolio is an innovative electronic portfolio that gives students and faculty and staff a personalized and flexible tool for storing and presenting a lifetime~s worth of education and professional experiences. iWebfolio provides an individual with the ability to store, organize, and display personal “learning” evidence to faculty, admissions offices, employers, and others through the creation of any number of portfolio views. Portfolios can contain work samples, learning goals, personal reflections, educational and professional accomplishments, skills, activities, and competencies, among other items, in a broad variety of formats including text and multimedia. iWebfolio also provides the ability to interact with institutional improvement and assessment processes, as well as with faculty, mentors, and supervisors.

 

By integrating iWebfolio with the Blackboard Learning System, students can more easily share their course-related documents with instructors, study group members and organization members. iWebfolio can also help faculty members, departments, and schools meet institutional and accrediting goals, review student work, and provide feedback.

 

“Our relationship with Nuventive is in direct response to client requests for sophisticated electronic portfolio solutions that work in concert with the Blackboard Learning System,” said Steve Hoffman, president and COO of Blackboard Inc. “iWebFolio will add valuable functionality and simplify the process of developing, submitting, assessing and tracking documents used in the Blackboard Learning System - for instructors, students, and academic institutions.”

 

In addition to the collaboration with Blackboard through the Building Blocks program, Nuventive is working closely with SCT to integrate Nuventive’s electronic portfolio and assessment products with SCT’s industry-leading administrative systems. This expanding cooperation is designed to provide an integrated suite of products that will bridge administrative systems, course management systems, and portfolios to help manage the academic and institutional assessment process. It will also help simplify the way in which institutions gather, store and present information for performance-based budgeting and accreditation purposes.

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