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Desire2Learn
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Desire2Learn Inc. is a corporation founded in 1999 that supplies enterprise software to allow users to build E-learning environments. Corporate headquarters are in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Desire2Learn (D2L) clients include colleges, universities, and schools, as well as associations and other organizations. The company claims more than four million users of their technology worldwide.
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Desire2Learn's products include:
A web-based learning platform that combines both a Learning Management System and a content management system. It consists of a suite of teaching and learning tools for course development, delivery, assessment, communication, and management.
The Learning Environment has many features including:
- Customizable Branding and Pedagogy
- Discussions, Grades, Statistics, and Feedback
- Quizzing
- Competencies
- Rubrics
- Reporting and Data Warehouse
- Survey System
- Conditional Releases and Learning Paths
- Dropbox
- Course Imports & Export Components
- Blog
- Content Conversion
- Glossary
- News
A repository for storing, tagging, searching and reusing Learning Objects. It allows organizations to manage and share content across multiple programs, courses, and sections.
Learning Repository incorporates standards and specifications such as IMS-Content Packaging, SCORM and IEEE LOM. The metadata editor also supports other metadata application profiles such as Dublin Core, GEM, CanCore and others.
Other features include:
- Object Status
- Peer Reviews
- Federated Searching
- Browsable Taxonomies
- Metadata Administrator, Editor and Views
- Event Logs and Reporting
- Personal Display Preferences
A chat, presentation and whiteboard technology which allows for particpants to communicate in live online learning activities.
Features include:
- Resource sharing
- Participant management
- Integrated web browser
Additional Desire2Learn Products Include:
- D2L Portal System
- D2L eCommerce & Registration System
On January 17, 2006 Blackboard was granted US patent 6,988,138 on "Internet-based education support system and methods" (with other multinational patents having been issued or pending) with extensive claims over many features of VLEs (U.S. Patent 6,988,138 ). On July 26, 2006, the company issued a press release regarding its patent portfolio and on that day filed a lawsuit against Desire2Learn(D2L) for patent infringement, using the above patent to assert its rights under US patent law. The Complaint was filed in Federal Court in the Eastern District of Texas, Lufkin Division, a rural East Texas judicial district.
Desire2Learn have posted a Patent Information page which comprehensively documents Blackboard's complaint against them.
Many members of the elearning community felt that the patent award ignored the extensive (and enabling) prior art on elearning and distance education and started a Wikipedia page, History of virtual learning environments, and a Moodle Docs wiki page, Online Learning History, to document the extant examples of VLEs. The elearning community has further supported Desire2Learn's defence by calling for a boycott of Blackboard. See, for example, BoycottBlackboard.org.
A web site against education patents, with a lot of information about the patent has been created: Noedupatents.org.
Desire2Learn offers services including implementation and integration, hosting, training, content development, help desk support, and support for their user community.