1.1 What are the major benefits to universities arising from implementing systems such as Blackboard? Education providers around the world are moving into electronic learning (e-learning). This can mean many different things, and, to some extent, may be resisted by traditional academics who view the classroom as the most effective place for learning.

This suspicion as to the value of e-learning is further fuelled by lack of understanding of the opportunities offered by the technologies available.

Blackboard.com has become one of the preferred suppliers of e-learning solutions, with a wide range of clients drawn from schools, universities and corporate development functions.

Professor Penny Boumelha, Deputy Vice-

Chancellor of the University of Adelaide says:

Our goal is to become adept at taking advantage of the technological changes that will lead to major advancements in teaching and research. Blackboard will enable us to facilitate a flexible approach to distance and multilingual course delivery for remote and overseas students.