This week I’ve been putting together some Blackboard data, which I thought would be good to share.
We’ve been running Blackboard since at least 2000, so we are at the end of our ninth year. Back then it was called “CourseInfo”, then changed to “CourseInfo Blackboard” and then finally, to “Blackboard”. During those years, we’ve created over 7000 sites for teaching (and a small number for research and collaboration purposes).
As you can see, the increase is fairly steady from 2002-2006, but it jumps in 2007. This is due to the merger with the (then) Dunedin College of Education, which added approximately 250 papers. In 2008, we had approximately 1600 papers in Blackboard (this number is adjusted so that two or more teaching papers that “share” one Blackboard paper are counted individually), which is nearly 60% of all University papers.
