Similar to what is commonly called Best Practices, Effective Practices aren't necessarily the best.  Rather it is a collective term for good, standard or exemplary methods, activities, and processes.  Effective Practices are identified, documented and shared to help people save time, money, resources and energy. Effective practices take many forms - they are templates, case studies, checklists, standards documents to name a few. 

Because there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all when it comes to complex situations that are commonplace within the Education and eLearning space, the term Best Practice can seem like a misnomer. Hence we've come up with the term Effective Practice. It may be more productive to think of good practices are those that help people in general save time, money and resources and it is up to you to decide which of these resources is best for you.

This area of the website is dedicated to helping the Blackboard community identify, document and share effective practices.

No one wants to re-invent the wheel!  Here is your forum to ask questions, seek out advice and tips and tricks or request a effective practice be researched and documented.  To start the conversation add a new Best Practices Discussion Forum post here.

Do know of a template, case study, news article, checklist, website or other resource that you want to share with the community?  Post resources in the Effective Practice Resource Center.

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