Blackboard’s most recent report Unlocking the Global Education Imperative: Core Challenges and Critical Responses, has been a year-long exercise where we interviewed educational, governmental and organizational leaders around the world, surveyed germane papers and reports, and consulted our own client base, which is spread across 70 countries.  In this report, we will spell out why we think there is a global education imperative, and provide collective guidance for institutional change. Throughout this report, there are quotations from our interviews and from other sources that are representative of our body of findings.

Unlocking the Global Education Imperative: Core Challenges and Critical Responses, is the first attempt to cover global trends in substantial depth and breadth.  Previous reports have covered higher education in three nations, examined changes in K12, and chronicled the rise of “K-20.”

Early in 2007, Blackboard issued A View from the Top: Building the 21st Century Campus, a study derived from face-to-face interviews with 60 higher education leaders in the United States and Canada. A larger sample survey of 500 institutional officers also took place online. In early 2008, Blackboard issued, A View from The Top II: Building the 21st Century Campus: A Leadership Survey on the Challenges Facing Australian Universities, which was an examination of top issues facing Australian Higher Education Leaders. 

Click the images below to download and explore the documents that resulted from this survey:

	Unlocking the Global Education Imperative: Core Challenges and Critical Responses
Executive Issues Study	Leadership White Paper	Products & Services Overview	Australia White Paper