The Next Big Thing in Digital Education: The Blackboard and McGraw-Hill Higher Education Partnership

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Millennial Professor

Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

The Next Big Thing in Digital Education: The Blackboard and McGraw-Hill  Higher Education Partnership Thursday, February 17th @  2:00pm Eastern The evolution of mobile and digital technology has reached its next milestone  within education – interactive, digital content – only a few, simple clicks away.  Recent data shows that Amazon sold more eBooks than printed. And, the  increasing popularity of smart devices and mobile tablets (iPads) enable quick  and effortless, mobile consumption of content. The confluence of these  technologies with education is leading educators to the next frontier in how  they use technology in the classrooms. The next big thing in digital education  will allow educators to pull content – eTexts, video, labeling exercises, and more  - from proven learning object repositories directly into their courses with just  two or three clicks. During this insightful webinar, Katie Blot, Senior Vice President of Consulting  at Blackboard and a former CIO at the U.S. Department of Education, will lead  the conversation on technology changes within education and how  technology can: Shape the daily lives of educators and learners Promote student success, educator efficiency and thriving institutions Plus, take a look inside Blackboard and McGraw-Hill’s new, integrated solution.  The solution makes McGraw-Hill Connect®, a leading homework management  system in the publishing industry, and McGraw-Hill CreateTM, a tool to create  custom textbooks and eBooks, accessible from within the Blackboard LearnTM  Platform. It represents the deepest, state-of-the-art integration of  publisher content within a learning management system, to date. This  Webinar is sponsored by Blackboard and hosted by The Chronicle of Higher  Education. All content presented during the event is provided by Blackboard.