UNF Wins 2006 Greenhouse Exemplary Course Award

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Blackboard Inc. announced this week that the University of North Florida was among the winners of its annual Greenhouse awards, recognizing academic institutions for exemplary use of Blackboard technology solutions to foster educational innovations.

UNF was a winner in the exemplary blended course category for its Community Nursing Service-Learning Homebase course, a community-based service learning curriculum, which integrates all of the universities pre-licensure upper division nursing students into one of six non-term service-learning courses called home bases with a complementary Blackboard site.

The course was submitted by UNF nursing instructors William Ahrens and Linda Connelly; Dr. Barbara Kruger, assistant professor of nursing; Deborah Miller, assistant director, Office of Faculty Enhancement; Erin Soles, instructional designer, Center for Instruction and Research Technology; and Tony Turrin, online learning technology coordinator, Information Technology Services. The team was awarded $5,000 and will use the funds to support future course development.

The Greenhouse awards feature three categories, including exemplary course, exemplary campus services and communities of practice. Entries were judged by a panel comprised of leading faculty and administrators involved in the use of technology to enhance education as well as last year’s Greenhouse Award winners and Blackboard managers.

The Blackboard system is the foundation of the e-learning environment at UNF and serves the online instruction, communication and collaboration needs of its faculty, staff and students.

Blackboard is a leading provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry. Founded in 1997, Blackboard enables educational innovations everywhere by connecting people and technology.

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