Durham Annual Blackboard Users' Conference

Current Conferences

12th Durham Blackboard Users Conference

This is a conference organised by the user community, for the user community. Whilst we welcome the involvement and support of Blackboard and other commercial companies, they have no influence on the conference theme, the programme or the content. This long-standing e-Learning event regularly attracts over 135 delegates! The audience is a mix of repeat attendees and first time visitors: learning technologists, librarians, academics, administrators and even the odd manager. It is a great networking opportunity at a low price.

The 2012 Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference will be held on Thursday the 5th and Friday the 6th of January 2012. The conference will explore openness. This is a hot topic in education and educational technology – think of open educational resources, open source software, open standards, open learning, open courseware, open access, open to all, open all hours*. What could, indeed should these terms mean to learners and teachers, the institutions and commercial interests that support, facilitate, measure, evaluate, archive, constrain or attempt to control these activities? This theme should resonate with anyone who has been within 100 miles of a Blackboard corporate presentation this year – “open standards”, “open database” and many other words implying a lack of closure now litter their slide decks. As a client you might want to put these claims to the test!