Besides using Blackboard for what is required or the obvious uses such as an extensive gradebook function, there are several educational benefits to using and Learning Management System (LMS) when teaching a face-to-face course.
Overall benefits include:
- Allowing students to have more opportunity to interact with the content
- Developed presentations and tools foster more student engagement
- Instructors have the ability to access more information about the students’ performance for years (useful for letters of recommendation)
- Better communication tools – including pushing information to students’ phones
- Increase self-directed learning
- Students learn vital technical skills
- It is easier to foster information literacy and introduce library services
- Rich content is available that is not available in paper format
- More affordable and a green alternative
- Content is more accessible
- Gives silent students a better chance to have a voice
- Students have more time to reflect on discussions
- Better testing tools to foster learning, such as instant feedback
- Online grading tools
- Anti-plagiarism tools
- Foster better learning communities
- Accommodates multiple modes of learning
- Students learn to tutor other students
With these benefits, it is hard to understand why one wouldn’t want to augment their courses with an LMS to improve their learning environment.
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