Blackboard Announces Winners of First Bbionic Course Contest(SM) and Greenhouse Project(SM)

Wednesday April 13, 7:00 am ET Programs Represent Milestone for Blackboard's Community of Practice; Winners Recognized at 7th Annual Blackboard Users Conference
WASHINGTON, DC--(MARKET WIRE)--Apr 13, 2005 -- Blackboard Inc. (NasdaqNM:BBBB - News) is pleased to announce the winners of its first Bbionic Course Contest and Greenhouse Project, two programs -- launched at EDUCAUSE 2004 -- to cultivate innovations in e-Learning and support the organic growth of knowledge within the Blackboard® community. Proposals for the Bbionic Course Contest, a course design competition were submitted from K-12 schools, and higher education institutions across the U.S. and abroad. Winners of this year's competition include:-- Virtual High School/Forks High School; Poetry Writing
-- Dallas Baptist University; ART-1306
-- Texas Women's University; Family Sexuality
-- Humboldt State University; Nutrition for Athletic Performance
-- University of Dundee (UK); Assessment Online
The winners of Greenhouse Project, a semi-annual grant program intended to foster academic dialogue, research and best practices development in e-Education are:-- University of Durham (UK); Foundations: Supporting and enhancing the
Building Block development community
-- University of Nebraska -- Lincoln; Underrepresented Courses: "Could
Distance Delivered Science Really Work?"

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