Blackboard and Skillsoft Partner to Deliver Career-Development Content to Professional Learners

WASHINGTON, July 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. today announced a partnership with Skillsoft, an industry leading content provider, enabling direct delivery of high-quality content to professional learners via Blackboard's industry-leading teaching and learning platform.

The partnership will allow Blackboard to offer learners and instructors access to Skillsoft's vast library of rich professional training and certification content, including IT certification, compliance, risk mitigation, sales performance, talent management, HR, and skills development for professionals, faculty and students.   

"Learning never stops," said Jay Bhatt, Blackboard's President and CEO. "From K-12 into higher education, and beyond into professional environments, learning happens throughout our entire lives – and we know that. By pairing with Skillsoft's rich content library, we hope to enrich and enhance lifelong learning by helping to meet the needs of tday's professional learners."

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About Blackboard Inc.
Blackboard is the world's leading education technology company. We challenge conventional thinking and advance new models of learning in order to reimagine education and make it more accessible, engaging and relevant to the modern day learner and the institutions that serve them. In partnership with our customers and partners in higher education and K-12 as well as corporations and government agencies around the world, our mission is to help every learner achieve their full potential by inspiring a passion for lifelong learning. For more information about Blackboard, follow us on Twitter @Blackboard.

About Skillsoft
Skillsoft is a pioneer in the field of learning and talent management with a long history of innovation. Skillsoft provides cloud-based solutions for our customers worldwide, who range from global enterprises, government and education customers to mid-sized and small businesses.

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