Ottawa University has announced a major new venture with Blackboard Inc., a leading worldwide provider of educational technology, software and services, aimed at accelerating the University's growth across all of its undergraduate and graduate programs.
While all Ottawa University students and faculty will benefit from the arrangement, there will be a special emphasis on serving the University's site-based and online adult learners. The goal of the new venture is to disintegrate the often artificial barriers between on ground and online learning modalities, dramatically enhance student outcomes and lower costs on behalf of students. The venture builds on Ottawa's well-established reputation for academic excellence and innovation combined with Blackboard's world-class technology and expertise to enable the development of new methods and processes for serving students in an increasingly boundaryless academic environment.