CREN Announces Partnership with Blackboard Inc. Help your faculty create course web sites quickly and easily. Many IT professionals on CREN campuses are struggling to effectively support faculty in their move to teaching and learning online. Faculty and staff alike are anxious to reduce the time and skills needed to get courses and course materials on the Web. To help campuses accomplish this goal, CREN is announcing a partnership with Blackboard Inc. to make the "Blackboard Course Info" course management system available to CREN members as part of a special limited time offer. Faculty need not have any knowledge of HTML or other programming languages to use CourseInfo. "Blackboard CourseInfo" allows faculty from any discipline to create "CourseSites" quickly and easily by incorporating a variety of web site applications that include:  Multimedia tools for audio and video streaming  Communication and Collaboration tools (e-mail, discussion board, and real-time chats)  On-line tests and quizzes! As a special benefit, Blackboard Inc. is offering a discount to CREN members who sign up to purchase CourseInfo product licenses before May 31, 1999. Currently in use by more than 150 institutions including Cornell University, The University of Memphis and Georgetown University, Blackboard CourseInfo should be purchased soon so that faculty can make use of it during summer planning! For an on-line demo of Blackboard CourseInfo, click here. To purchase "Blackboard CourseInfo" at the discounted price for CREN members, please send e-mail to CREN@Blackboard.net or call Jim Kabbani of Blackboard at (202) 463-4860, ext. 227 or Lee Perlis at CREN (202)331-5371.

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