What is Scholar?”Blackboard Scholar® is a social bookmarking service customized for education. It provides an exciting new way for students and instructors to find educationally valuable resources on the Web. Using the knowledge and power of [a] network of educational users, Scholar will make it easier for instructors and students to find relevant resources on the Internet for courses and research. Furthermore, by storing and sharing associated information with each resource such as tags, disciplines, other users who have tagged and more, Scholar will allow users to evaluate the resources and find the most relevant and reliable. And it is directly integrated within the Blackboard Learning System(TM) - Enterprise, Vista, and CE Licenses, providing easy access right within the course environment.”
(cited from Scholar Wiki: http://wiki.scholar.com/display/SCLR/About+Scholar How to get startedIf you are an instructor and are using Blackboard Vista, you can activate the Scholar Powerlink to make Scholar available in your course. To learn more about Scholar, view the online tutorial. |
