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Save Time and Money with Blackboard Collaborate
Hard Economic Times Hit Education HardOver the past year, the world economy experienced a continuation of the economic challenges that began with the
2008 recession. The European Union continued to struggle financially while attempting to right faltering economies in
Greece and Italy. Ripple effects from the EU’s troubles brought more uncertainty to an already-shaky United States, where
unemployment continued to hover above 9%. Powerful weather patterns further confounded the US recovery, causing
continued and costly disruptions to financial markets as well as everyday life. Both the private and public sectors were
impacted, and the world of education was certainly not spared.
Many K-12 and post-secondary public schools confronted budget cuts, some for the fourth consecutive year, as local and
state governments grappled with budget deficits.
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While public institutions have been hit especially hard, private schools,
colleges, and universities have also struggled with pressures to keep tuition
costs in line. Even those institutions with enviable endowments have seen
their funds dwindle.
Educational institutions at all levels and of all kinds were once again tasked
with doing more with less. Some schools faced budget cuts of more than
20%; others had to deal with travel and hiring freezes. All were expected to
maintain the same high levels of quality and efficiency they had maintained
before the economic downturn.
Just how did schools save time and money while maintaining their academic
and administrative quality? Many relied on Blackboard Collaborate.
Blackboard Collaborate™ technology delivers open, education-focused
collaboration solutions that enhance learning, reduce costs, and improve
outcomes by enabling more effective instruction, meetings, and help—
anywhere, anytime. Its comprehensive platform provides a wide spectrum
of collaboration that can help schools reach higher goals in learning with:
Web, video, and audio conferencing
Presence and instant messaging
Voice authoring and collaboration
As documented in previous white papers published by Blackboard
Collaborate, several years ago, select K12 schools, colleges, and universi-
ties began to document time and money savings that resulted from using
Blackboard Collaborate. For example, in 2008, San Diego State University
saved $75,000 by transitioning a single engineering course online. Idaho
Digital Learning Academy saved more than $350,000 in 2010 by moving
statewide professional development meetings into the online environment.
And the Human Resources Department at Marshall University saved tens of
thousands of dollars in 2010 simply by conducting executive-level candidate
interviews virtually.
Eliminating Travel Saves Time and Money Meetings go green at Southern Cross UniversityOn being asked, in the spring of 2010, to use more cost-effective and
‘greener’ technologies by its administration, officials at Australia’s Southern
Cross University’s School of Commerce and Management decided to
conduct their semi-annual course review sessions live online via Blackboard
Collaborate rather than have participants travel to face-to-face meetings
from across the continent. SCU’s School of Commerce and Management
held 26 virtual meetings in 2010 and realized a significantly positive financial
(and environmental) impact compared to face-to-face meetings. And they
did so without sacrificing on the quality of meeting outcomes.
In 2008, San Diego State University saved $75,000 by transitioning a single engineering course online.
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By meeting virtually via Blackboard Collaborate,
SCU eliminated:
Wages for meeting participants for the hours spent traveling to and from meeting venues
Reimbursement for use of private vehicles
Fuel, maintenance, and wear-and-tear costs for university vehicles
Accommodations and food costs for participants requiring an overnight stay
Costs associated with use of facilities where meetings were held
Translated into savings, SCU realized:
$11,289 by eliminating travel reimbursements
• $2,531inuniversityvehiclecosts
• $4,170inprivatevehiclereimbursements
• $538inaccommodationsandfoodcosts
• $81inon-campusroomusagecosts
Total savings: $18,609 for the 6-month period of this program*
Yet the quality didn’t suffer. In terms of effectiveness,
93% of respondents stated they had a ‘very positive’
or ‘somewhat positive’ experience meeting online to
discuss course reviews, and 93% believed the program
was as effective at achieving the desired outcomes as
face-to-face meetings.
“By using Blackboard Collaborate we achieved all these
savings just for one course [review], at one school, at
one university,” says Steve Rowe.1 “The savings were
significant, especially for a school of our small size. The
license costs and other software costs do not impact
the overall significance of our savings.”
With Blackboard Collaborate, Ivy Tech realizes operating efficienciesFor larger school systems, the savings can be even
more dramatic.
Indiana’s Ivy Tech Community has 26 campuses located
throughout the state, and serves over 125,000 students,
offering both undergraduate and technical courses
on campus and remotely. And since its new president
introduced a plan to map out an enhanced distance
education strategy for the school, Ivy Tech has become
the fastest growing institution in the state.
Ivy Tech’s distance education program offers nearly
500 classes that serve more than 30,000 students.
“Our online classes are offered by all Ivy Tech campuses.
For example, in one semester a student might have
faculty located in Indianapolis, Muncie, Fort Wayne,
or Richmond. Their instructors and classmates could
all be from all these different locations,” says Dr. Kara
Monroe, assistant vice provost, Center for Instructional
Technology at Ivy Tech. “Though a strong part of our
enrollment is our online education program, Blackboard
Collaborate allows us to realize operational efficiencies
in all facets of our institution through reduced travel
costs, enhanced ability to provide on-demand services,
and use of innovative strategies for faculty and staff
development.”2
* Steve Rowe, an SCU staff member who helped calculate the savings, estimates these cost savings would be more than $40,000 annually. All figures provided by SCU are in Australian dollars.
1 Gallagher, Salome, Howton, Kirsty, Rowe, Steve, and Sloan, Keith, “Study Break: Going Green and Saving Money Across the Globe with Collaboration Technologies.” Blackboard Collaborate Distinguished Lecture Series (webcast). February 22, 2011.
2 Falquist, Ryan, Monroe, Kara, “Strategic Returns from the Blackboard Collaborate Suite.” Blackboard Collaborate Connections Summit 2011. July 2011.
ELIMINATING TRAVEL SAVES THE ENVIRONMENT.
Southern Cross University didn’t just save
time and money with Blackboard Collaborate,
it reduced its carbon footprint as well. By
allowing its personnel to remain at home to
attend meetings, the University avoided:
6.067tonsofemissions
27,778.74kilometersofdriving
1.86 tons of vehicle CO2 emissions
.25tonsofaccommodationsemissions
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When it comes to travel, Blackboard Collaborate is helping Ivy Tech
achieve astounding savings.
Each year, the system holds over 100 statewide meetings virtually via
Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing—meetings, which if conducted
face-to-face, would cost the institution upwards of $300,000 in mileage,
meals, and hotel reimbursement costs, not to mention the thousands of
lost hours of productivity spent by staff driving to meeting locations.
The California Community Colleges System saves on statewide meetings across 112 campusesThe vast California Community Colleges System has 2.9 million students,
112 campuses, and 85,000 staff and faculty. Annual travel reimbursement
costs in the millions of dollars were being incurred, as staff and faculty
traveled to out-of-area meeting to participate in statewide committees.
Realizing that it had to find a more cost-effective means of holding its
meetings, CCC Confer—the team that hosts the system’s virtual meet-
ings—turned to Blackboard Collaborate.
Michelle Taramasco of CCC Confer estimates that, since 2003, Blackboard
Collaborate has saved the system tens of millions of dollars by enabling
it to hold more than 100,000 meetings online. The system has also
increased its student retention rates within online classes, and has even
bolstered revenue by holding virtual recruitment webinars that help the
system attract more students.3
Northern Illinois University offers professional development, around the globeNorthern Illinois University began offering professional development
for its own faculty and staff via Blackboard Collaborate in 2007, but it
became such a successful, cost-effective, and efficient program that
it started to offer these online programs to faculty and staff at other
universities across the globe. NIU has reached university faculty in
Great Britain, Alaska, and Michigan with sessions that originated at
its campuses.
NIU’s IT staff even won a Blackboard Catalyst award for its exemplary
work. “Our Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center staff
members should be applauded for the strides they have made with the
Blackboard system,” NIU Provost Ray Alden said. “Their work has provided
another dimension to online learning so that it is intriguing, convenient,
and global. The Northern Illinois University community and higher educa-
tion in general are the benefactors of the staff’s innovative work.”4
3 Taramasco, Michelle, “The ROI of Collaboration.” Blackboard Collaborate Distinguished Lecture Series (webinar). July 27, 2011.
4 “NIU receives 2011 Blackboard Catalyst Award.” NIU Today. October 21, 2011.
Ivy Tech Community College holds over 100 statewide meetings virtually, which if conducted face-to-face, would cost upwards of $300,000.
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With Blackboard Collaborate, five California counties can share costs and offer a far richer learning experience to non-traditional students than they could on their own.
K12 Finds SavingsPacWest Academy cost-effectively meets the needs of non-traditional studentsPacWest Academy, a new remote-learning high school, offers a complete
high school education to students in five counties in Northern California
whose needs aren’t met in a traditional school setting. The Academy was
founded by a parent whose 16-year-old son had had an opportunity to
participate in a national tour for four-wheeler ATV competitors – on the
condition that he also stay in school. Educator Teresa Creech wanted
families that might find themselves in similar circumstances to be able to
support their children’s unique educational situations. Thus was born the
PacWest Academy, a charter school that relies on Blackboard Collaborate
to support the needs of students who can’t come in to the school’s physical
location in Eureka, California.5 With Blackboard Collaborate, five California
counties can share costs and offer a far richer learning experience to non-
traditional students than they could on their own.
Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School cost-effectively provides IT support Across the country in suburban Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Virtual
Charter School’s IT team not only uses Blackboard Collaborate to accom-
modate students with unique needs, state wide, but also saves time and
money on IT troubleshooting.
“The first two weeks are always complete bedlam as far as IT support
goes,” said Michael Rublesky, Senior Director of Technology. “There are
anywhere from 1,200 to 1,500 new students coming online every year,
and they all need help getting up and running.” Most of these students
are located hundreds of miles away from the school’s headquarters, so
they can’t just drop into the IT department when they have a problem. To
handle their technology issues, Rublesky and his three-person team set up
a webcam in their offices, and, during the annual period when new students
come online, address the questions live as they come in via Blackboard
Collaborate. “Whether it’s hardware, software, connectivity, or the like, we
knock it all out during those first few weeks of school, online, in a collabora-
tive format,” said Rublesky. “This is not only easier on our IT team, but it also
gets students learning and studying faster than if they would have had to
wait around for us to get back to them.”
Rublesky said the Blackboard Collaborate-powered helpdesk blends well
with the school’s overall mission to deliver curriculum over the Internet
in a streamlined fashion, knowing that it “can’t possibly be everything to
everyone at the same time.” The webcam setup is used for other func-
tions, including Special Olympics training, where students use it to teach
students specific sports and events.
5 Burns, Ryan, “High School 2.0: New charter program offers college-prep classes in cyberspace.” THE Journal. September 30, 2010.
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Being able to collaborate online to solve student and teacher IT problems
is cost effective for the statewide school. “I’m able to knock out ques-
tions from 1,200 to 1,500 users with just four personnel,” said Rublesky.
“That means no expense, no travel, no training, and no problems.”6
blendedschools.net runs cost-effective meetingsJed Friedrichsen is the CEO of blendedschools.net, a non-profit
organization that provides K12 curriculum, learning technologies,
professional development, and a collaborative professional network
to hundreds of public K12 schools, which often aren’t able to afford
enterprise-wide technologies on their own. Although blendedschools.
net predominantly serves schools in Pennsylvania, Friedrichsen works
remotely from his home office in Columbia, Missouri, nearly 1,000
miles away. He relies heavily on Blackboard Collaborate to meet with
his staff, as well as with his clients, while saving tens of thousands of
dollars in travel costs. He says, “Using Blackboard Collaborate saves
me dozens of trips annually.”7
Harris County provides cost-effective professional developmentTexas’ Harris County Department of Education is tasked with delivering
hundreds of professional development sessions for faculty members
scattered across its geographically large county, which includes
Houston. Like many other schools districts, Harris County saw its budget
decreased in 2009 and again in 2010. Yet it was asked to perform at the
same level.
“These cutbacks hurt,” said David McGeary, Digital Learning Specialist.
“We have to make sure we’re saving as much as possible and are doing
the most cost-effective things possible, but still maintaining the qual-
ity. So we realized that having virtual content sharing and using online
techniques could accommodate everyone who attends our trainings.”
McGeary and his team use Blackboard Collaborate to hold live, online
professional development meetings and have even made it a part of
the larger Virtual Instructor’s Academy of Texas, a Texas Virtual School
Network-approved professional development provider.
Pinellas County, Florida, saves thousands.Laura Ruscetta of the Pinellas County Public Schools began using
Blackboard Collaborate in 2009 to eliminate the need for science
teachers from 72 schools in the county to drive to meeting locations
for professional development and training sessions. With Blackboard
Collaborate, the county school district saves thousands of dollars a year
in terms of lost productivity and distance traveled.
6 McCrea, Bridget, “IT in the Virtual World.” THE Journal. May 5, 2011.
7 “K12 Schools Save Time and Money with Blackboard Collaborate.” YouTube (video). August 26, 2011.
Like many other schools districts, Harris County saw its budget decreased in 2009 and again in 2010. Yet it was asked to perform at the same level.
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“I had one teacher tell me, ‘This is amazing. I can attend a professional
development session with my shoes off in my own classroom while still
learning the same great content.’ Using Blackboard Collaborate for live
online professional development has been a very positive experience for
not only myself but everyone else involved,” Ruscetta says. “I remember
one meeting in the spring (2011) when we had teachers from 50 schools,
and we could look at one document at the same time. Nobody had to buy
gas, and no one had to drive an hour to a meeting. Think about it: that
saved some people two hours of travel time in one night.”8
Time is MoneyIf time is money, then the efficiencies created through real-time collabora-
tions between faculty, staff, and students add up quickly.
Saving faculty and staff time at Holmes Community CollegeIn addition to its traditional classes, in the fall 2011 semester, Holmes
Community College, of Goodman, Mississippi, offered a complete curricu-
lum online to more than 2,100 students. Many of Holmes 106 online instruc-
tors live outside of Mississippi and use the entire Blackboard Collaborate
platform to engage their students.
Jenny B. Jones, EdS, of Holmes’s Instructional Technology/Media Services,
is one of the college’s technology staff and trains both on-campus and
online instructors. Like her teachers, she, too, uses Blackboard Collaborate
and asynchronous course tools to get her faculty up to speed. She believes
that using collaboration technologies great enhances her efficiency and
communication.
In addition to offering live online classes via Blackboard Collaborate, staff
and faculty throughout Mississippi’s community colleges participate in
numerous live online meetings, professional development, and training
sessions each year. By offering meetings live online as an alternative to
requiring faculty and staff to drive upwards of four hours one-way to
an on-site meeting location, the state realizes significant cost and time
savings.9
“We use Blackboard Collaborate administratively as a communication
tool for meetings that prevents people from having to drive to 15 random
meeting locations across the state to a central meeting area. So when you
account for the mileage and the time away from the office, a meeting on
average, if all 15 colleges are participating, can save anywhere from $1,500-
$2,000. So not only are we seeing an increase in retention and increased
interaction, but we’re also seeing cost savings over the long run through
8 Ruscetta, Laura, “Efficient K12 Professional Development and Instruction.” Blackboard Collaborate Distinguished Lecture Series (webcast). August 18, 2011.
9 Givens, Beverlin, Pruett, Christian, “Strategic Returns from the Blackboard Collaborate Suite.” Blackboard Collaborate Connections Summit 2011. July 2011.
A [virtual] meeting on average, if all 15 colleges are participating, can save anywhere from $1,500-$2,000.Dr. Christian Pruett Assistant Executive Director of eLearning Mississippi Community College Board
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the use of Blackboard Collaborate that we hadn’t been able to
recognize before,” says Dr. Christian Pruett, Assistant Executive
Director of eLearning at the Mississippi Community College
Board, the state agency that oversees all 15 campuses.10
Saving prospective students time at the University of EdinburghAfter years of holding on-campus ‘open weeks’ at which
prospective students visit its campus to learn about the
school, the University of Edinburgh began using Blackboard
Collaborate in 2011 to host virtual open weeks aimed at
prospective postgraduates who may not be able to attend in
person. By holding its popular open days online, the University
saved 700 prospective students the better part of a weekend
by holding several sessions that last a couple of hours but
require no travel.
The sessions gave prospective students who weren’t able
to travel to Edinburgh the opportunity to speak to current
students, lecturers, and other staff about topics as diverse as
visas, accommodation, student life, and research.
Though several other universities already run virtual open days
at which prospective students are able to view campus life via
webcams or iPhone Apps, the University of Edinburgh’s event
was the first in the country to allow students to participate on
a personalized basis, rather than just viewing generic infor-
mation, and to interact with staff and students. According to
Fiona Littleton, the virtual open days were so successful that
they’ll become one of the main calls to action of upcoming
university-wide marketing messages.
Alex Gandini, a prospective postgraduate student in math,
said, “I’m currently finishing my undergraduate degree in
London, so traveling up to Edinburgh for an open day would
really be impossible. I probably just wouldn’t have bothered
applying without having seen the university. My friend at
Edinburgh told me about this virtual open day, and I think it’s
a really good idea. It will save me a full weekend of traveling up
and down, and I definitely plan to register. I’m really interested
in talking to current students doing the course I’m applying
for, so I can find out what it’s really like.”11
Matt Wasowski is an Adjunct Professor of
Creative Writing at Holmes Community
College (Goodman, MS) who has taught
remotely from Brooklyn, NY, since 2009.
“Because I teach Creative Writing, I
constantly have to provide very thorough
feedback to my students. I typically have
about 15 students per class. They each
turn in six four-to-seven-page papers
each semester. And it typically takes me
about 45-60 minutes to read and then
make comments on a single paper. This
means that I have to spend 15-20 hours per
week grading when I provide feedback in
Microsoft Word by using Track Changes
and inserting textual comments,” Wasowski
says. “But I found that if I use Blackboard
Collaborate’s voice email capability, I can
speak my responses much faster than I can
type them. In fact, not only do students get
to hear my voice as I’m giving them feed-
back, but I save 25-35 hours each semester
thanks to Collaborate.”
Wasowski also uses Blackboard Collaborate
to better engage with his students. “I live in
Brooklyn, but my students live throughout
the South,” he said. “In addition to post-
ing assignments and announcements in
Blackboard Learn, I regularly engage my
students via Blackboard Collaborate voice
authoring and hold online office hours via
Blackboard enterprise instant messaging. I
even record lectures and hold get-to-know-
you seminars at the start of each semester
in a live virtual classroom. Many of my
students have said the constant interaction
makes it feel as if we’re meeting in the same
room on-campus each week.”
10 Pruett, Christian, “Blackboard Collaborate Saves Time and Money” (video). Blackboard Collaborate website. Fall 2011.
11 Richardson, Kathryn, “UoE to host virtual open week: Over 700 people have signed up for online postgraduate open week.” The Edinburgh Journal Limited. January 26, 2011.
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Stormy Weather? No problem with Blackboard CollaborateIn January 2011, the editorial board of The Triangle, Drexel University’s
student newspaper, wrote about the inconvenience and dangers that
Drexel’s largely commuting student population faces during a typical
Philadelphia winter. “What’s a student to do when a road is closed,
the buses aren’t running, their car is stuck or the snow knocked their
power off and their alarm clock never rang? Nothing is more annoy-
ing than getting out of bed and doing an hour-long tightrope walk
on ice to get from the suburbs to campus only to find out the profes-
sor sent an e-mail cancelling class 10 minutes earlier.” Fortunately,
the editors concluded, “We live in 2011, a time when technology is
our friend. Drexel offers resources such as Blackboard Vista and
[Blackboard Collaborate] that help bring the classroom online, which
can keep a class from falling behind schedule.”12
Drexel is not the only school that has turned to Blackboard Collaborate
during school closures so that their students don’t miss class.
In late January 2011, the West Virginia Department of Education
was scheduled to hold an all-day project meeting that required 22
staff from across the state to drive to the district office. With a snow
and ice storm forecast, they decided they would host the meeting
via Blackboard Collaborate instead. Donna Landin, Coordinator,
eLearning, of the Department of Education’s Office of Instructional
Technology, hosted the virtual meeting and said it was “very success-
ful and interactive.”
Not only did they have much better attendance than if they had
held the meeting on site, but the meeting participants saved hours
of travel through the ice and snow. Landin estimates they saved
$10,000-$15,000 just by holding this one meeting virtually. In fact,
the state’s Deputy Superintendent even sent out a note to the entire
department, sharing the news and encouraging others to start think-
ing this way, too.
The following month, much of Michigan was in the path of severe
blizzard. Joel Ottenbriet, Assistant Professor and Academic Advisor
at Spring Arbor University, turned to Blackboard Collaborate when
he realized his campus would likely close.
Several days before class, Ottenbriet emailed his students that
the class might be changed to an online format using Blackboard
Collaborate. He sent the students periodic emails about how to
prepare. Instructions recommended having the link and a combination
microphone/headset as an option. Those students unable to use a
A blizzard closed West Georgia’s campus for an entire week. But instead of missing five days of class time, many professors held their classes live online via Blackboard Collaborate until the snow melted and campus re-opened.
12 Editorial Board, “Snow day considerations.” The Triangle. January 28, 2011.
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microphone were advised that they could use the chat feature
to communicate instead. Finally, Ottenbriet explained that if
individual technical difficulties occurred, or other problems
like operating with a dial up service restricted their access to
the live online session, they could listen to a recorded session
the following day.
“The day of the storm, students were notified by email in the
morning, and Plan B went into effect!” he said. “We found
that using Blackboard Collaborate was an excellent alterna-
tive to canceling face-to-face classes. There are multiple ways
to generate student interaction and provide variety to my
lectures, including chat and polling features, the white board,
and groups for peer to peer discussions.”13
“The business of teaching and learning is too important to
stop because of weather and other events,” says Maurice
Heiblum, President of Blackboard Collaborate. “Education
collaboration solutions save time and money year-round, but
it’s during these times when we see multiple disruptions due
to snow and other weather delays and events that institutions
understand the significant value these solutions can bring.”14
Around the same time but 1,000 miles to the south, the
University of West Georgia was also confronted with a pending
blizzard. In late January 2011, a blizzard closed West Georgia’s
campus for an entire week. But instead of missing five days of
class time, many professors held their classes live online via
Blackboard Collaborate so they wouldn’t have to rush through
material once the snow melted and campus re-opened.15
Whether it’s a snowstorm, other weather event, or a campus
emergency, Blackboard Collaborate is often a recommended
alternative instead of closing a campus.
“In 2009 when flooding forced Valley City State University
to close down with just weeks remaining in the semester,
Blackboard Collaborate solutions helped us salvage the
term by allowing students and instructors to continue their
coursework remotely,” said Jerry Rostad, Director, Advanced
Learning Technologies, North Dakota University System. “With
[Blackboard Collaborate web conferencing and enterprise
instant messaging], instructors were able to connect with the
scattered students, continue classroom discussion and admin-
ister the remaining exams and assignments.”
13 Ottenbreit, Joel, “Don’t cancel your face to face class – do Elluminate!” Blended Learning (blog). February 3, 2011.
14 Gallob, Beth, “Blackboard Helps Keep Learning Going Despite Weather Events, School Closures.” Blackboard Collaborate website (press release). February 15, 2011.
15 Busbin, Jason, “Blackboard Collaborate helps the University of West Georgia with Business Continuity.” YouTube (video). August 18, 2011.
The business of teaching and learning is too important to stop because of weather and other events. Education collaboration solutions save time and money year-round, but it’s during these times when we see multiple disruptions due to snow and other weather delays and events that institutions understand the significant value these solutions can bring.Maurice Heiblum President of Blackboard Collaborate
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Saving Time and Money with Blackboard CollaborateK12 and post-secondary institutions across the globe rely on Blackboard
Collaborate to save them time, money, and even the environment. Whether
saving time by not having to drive to campus or by utilizing voice technologies
to provide quick verbal feedback, or saving money by eliminating hotel, food,
and gas reimbursements when traveling to meetings or holding on-campus
open houses or conferences, it is clear that collaboration technologies enable
schools of all types, sizes, and missions to realize significant savings in time,
money, and the quality of life for faculty, staff, and students.
Perhaps Donyell Francis, an Accountability Research Analyst for Georgia Virtual
Technical College, says it best when he talks about the ultimate goal of saving
time and money—quality of life.
Based near Atlanta, his team provides curriculum to students throughout Georgia.
But their instructors also live throughout the state. This means that Francis and his
team often must drive great distances to provide training and IT support.
“When we have to travel, which we have to do frequently, sometimes we go
all the way out to Southeastern Technical College which is a 5 ½-hour drive
and we may have to stay there for up to three days, and I have to be away
from my family,” he says, speaking of his wife and newborn child. “But by using
Collaborate I’m able to work from my office, do what’s needed, and be at home
at night with my family.”16
To learn more about how you can reach your academic, administrative, and
financial goals through more interactive and cost-effective collaboration, visit
blackboardcollaborate.com,[email protected],
ortryoursolutionfreefor30daysatbbcollaborate.com/try.
16 Francis, Donyell, & Thompson, Ruth, “Georgia Schools Accomplish Their Strategic Goals with Blackboard Collaborate.” Blackboard Collaborate website. May 2011.
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