Bridgwater College Overcomes CPD Submission Challenges with Blackboard

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Initiative Allows FE College to Tailor Continuous Professional Development Courses to Individual Staff Requirements

AMSTERDAM – 18 May, 2010 – Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) today announced that Bridgwater College has incorporated its Continuous Professional Development (CPD) plans into Blackboard Learn™, greatly easing the burden on instructors to meet new reporting requirements from the Institute for Learning (IFL) and enabling the college to tailor their CPD courses to the needs of individual staff.
 
At a time when approximately 70,000 FE teachers and trainers nationally must declare 30 hours of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) to the IFL, Bridgwater’s initiative dramatically cuts the amount of time staff must spend collating the documents required to complete their submission. Consequently it enables staff to complete the online form with minimal effort and has led to a submission rate well above the national average.

Three years of CMSReport.com

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This month marks a new milestone for CMS Report, the blog, news, and aggregated website turned three years old.  When I wrote the first post, I wasn't quite sure where I wanted to take the site, but I knew my enthusiasm for Web content management systems would get me wherever I needed to go.  Three years later, CMSReport.com has seen over 1,700 original articles posted at the site.  Pleasing to me, not all of these posts were written by me as I have always appreciated the contributions of content by others here at the site.

During the life of CMSReport.com, I have occasionally been labeled by others as an expert in content management systems.  I've never been comfortable with the expert label for a couple of reasons.  First, I'm well aware of some very qualified leaders in the content management field that easily make me look like the amateur that I am.  Secondly, the strength of CMS Report has really never come from what I know about CMS.  Instead, I believe the strength and survival of this site has always been dependent on what I do not know about CMS but enthusiastically want to learn.

I've learned a lot about Web CMS since my early adventures into open source applications such as SMF, Wordpress, Drupal, and even Mambo. Today, we put focus on a mix of open source, propriety, community, and propriety content management systems.  In all this time, I still believe my first observations for the need of sites like CMSReport.com hold true:

Building a site for the Internet, whether for business or personal use, can be overwhelming. Where do you start? Well that's the question I would like to help answer.