Sibling Group Holdings, an educational technology holding company, announced today that its Blended Schools Network (“BSN”) division has joined the Blackboard Partnerships™ Program as a Blackboard Signature Partner™. Blackboard Inc. is a leading education technology provider that is reimagining education by challenging conventional thinking and advancing new learning models. Through this effort all BSN content courses, units and lessons will be available to schools and districts that use Blackboard’s teaching and learning environment.
The education market has experienced a distinct shift as schools and districts pursue complete solutions to their online education needs. The delivery of the Blended Schools Network content through Blackboard’s teaching and learning environment will help create a complete online education solution for schools. Under the terms of the Agreement, the Blackboard K12 Team members will demo, promote and/or evangelize the Blended Schools Network content and reference its value to teaching and learning within the Blackboard solutions.
“The Blackboard partnership announced today represents a catalytic growth event for Sibling,” stated Jed Friedrichsen, the Company’s Chief Academic Officer and one of the founding members of BSN. “We have worked with Blackboard since 2004 and this new partnership is a great testimonial of the success of our ongoing relationship.”
The partnership was first introduced at BbWorld®, the company’s annual user-conference held earlier this month. As a Blackboard Signature Partner, the BSN team will engage in strategic business, educational and joint marketing activities.
“As many schools are making the transition to new state standards and blended learning environments, it is incredibly important that there are tools that make the finding, curating and sharing content simple and intuitive,” said Mark Belles, senior vice president of K-12 at Blackboard. “We couldn’t be more excited to expand our longstanding relationship with Blended Schools Network to do just that. Together, we will work to help schools and districts have an even better teaching and learning experience and set students up for success.”
