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| Blackboard Signs Nation-wide Agreement in The Netherlands Blackboard has signed a major three year nation-wide e-Learning expansion agreement with SURFdiensten and SLBdiensten in The Netherlands. SURFdiensten facilitates the use of ICT in higher education and research, while SLBdiensten provides licenses for vocational, adult education, and secondary education. Over a million students in The Netherlands and Belgium currently access Blackboard's software. The existing agreement originally dates from 1999 and allows higher, vocational and secondary education institutions in The Netherlands and Belgium access to the Blackboard Learning System and Blackboard Community System. The new contract extends the current agreement into 2010 and allows continuity for enterprise e-Learning software in The Netherlands and Belgium. It shows mutual commitment between Blackboard, SURFdiensten and SLBdiensten for this market. The new contract offers education institutes the option to take advantage of new Blackboard webservices, including the SafeAssign plagiarism detection and deterrence services and Scholar social bookmarking services. SafeAssign empowers academics and students to protect the originality of work, as well as creating an opportunity to educate students on the importance of proper attribution and citation. Scholar provides an innovative way for users to connect with researchers studying similar topics at institutions around the world, allowing professors, students, and other academics to store and share online bookmarks related to their areas of study and interest. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |