Associations face the challenge of creating and maintaining a sense of community for a geographically dispersed member base. Providing continuing education is essential to increasing revenue and membership.

With the Blackboard® Professional Education Suite, associations can offer members continuing education and certification programs in a ‘learner-friendly’ environment. The solution’s easy-to-use design means more than a flashy user interface.  It is software that works the way the learner works, with little or no training required.

A critical talent shortage is underway due to the onset of the baby-boom retirement and a skilled worker shortage. Many e-Learning applications such as Learning Management Systems do not adequately deliver the tools required to bridge the skills gap because they fail to reach widespread adoption.

Blackboard Inc. leverages its vast experience in the educational community to delivery a ‘learner-friendly’ learning solution to the corporate market. The Blackboard® Professional Education Suite is different from typical Learning Management Systems which focus on administration. Instead, Blackboard provides a system that designed around the end user. As a result, Blackboard’s clients enjoy high levels of program success whose learners and instructors love to use the system.

For-Profit institutions today face the tremendous challenge of addressing the needs of non-traditional students and being able to quickly adapt to their ever-changing requirements and interests.

With the Blackboard® Professional Education Suite, For-Profit institutions can offer educational programs that improve student outcomes and enhance teaching and learning, both in the classroom and online. This world-class learning solution has become a mission-critical application at thousands of educational institutions around the world.

Military and government personnel represent the nation’s largest and most geographically dispersed workforce. These organizations need to be able to quickly deliver training and respond to changes. At the same time, they face budgetary pressure and need to demonstrate rapid return on their IT investments.

The Blackboard® Professional Education Suite provides clients in the federal, state, and local government sector with a fast, cost-effective solution to successfully deliver training and development programs to large populations of students. This solution is easy to learn, easy to use, and delivers one of the highest levels of user adoption and program success in the industry.