Blackboard Enterprise
Blackboard courseware provides online tools for teaching, learning, and communication.
Blackboard Enterprise is integrated with enterprise directory and student records systems.
Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS)
A new center at Georgetown with a mandate to foster and comprehensively support an institutional focus on pedagogy and reflective teaching practice; to advance faculty and student work in new learning environments through professional development, curriculum development, research, and coordination of technology support; and to engage in and serve as a national center for research and scholarship on teaching and learning, especially in connection with new learning environments.
Data Warehouse Initiative
The mission of the Data Warehouse Group is to build an integrated institutional information architecture that includes a comprehensive classification of academic and administrative activities in support of decision-making processes essential in achieving Information Access's mission.
Directory Enabled Services
This initiative aims to deploy a set of University-wide services organized around a central directory, with access controlled by a single NetID & password.
These services will emphasize open standards to provide maximum flexibility and interoperability.
Internet2
An initiative of the
University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development with a charge to "facilitate and coordinate the development, deployment, operation and technology transfer of advanced, network-based applications and network services to further U.S. leadership in research and higher education and accelerate the availability of new services and applications on the Internet." Georgetown University is a member institution.
Jesuit Distance Education Network (JNET)
Through its new Jesuit Distance Education Network, (JNET), the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) seeks to meet the diverse, growing needs of learners, both traditional and non-traditional, by providing a flexible and convenient way to learn, thus complementing the classroom learning on our campuses.
Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX)
Corporation founded by Georgetown University, The George Washington University, the University of Maryland, and Virginia Tech to provide cost-effective connectivity to high-speed networks, such as
UCAID's Abilene, for the four universities, as well as for government agencies such as NIH and HUD, and other regional K-12 and higher education institutions.
