Academic institutions in the Middle East have looked in Blackboard's education technology as part of their initiative to introduce e-Learning in institutes.
Blackboard Inc., a leading provider of enterprise software and related services to the education industry announced that the company has licensed Blackboard technology to more than thirty leading institutes from eight different countries in the Middle East to enhance teaching and learning. The company has licensed the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT), American University in Cairo, Hashmite University, King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals, Kuwait University, United Arab Emirates University, and University of Bahrain. Recently, the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) in United Arab Emirates (UAE) has upgraded its system to the Blackboard Learning System Vista Enterprise License, to advance its educational curriculum.
