A key decision that influenced moving to Brightspace was the flexibility of the platform, as the look and feel was more enticing than our previous VLE. The personalisation we can achieve with intelligent agents and the mobile friendly app are excellent features too.
Pedagogy
D2L is a global learning innovation company first and foremost, underpinned by exceptional technology. We are dedicated to helping improve learning experiences and use resources to better understand evolving trends in pedagogy so we can build our technology accordingly.
Continuous investment into innovation which can drive impact
When education technology is easy to use, captivating and efficient, it can spark genuine change.
D2L’s Creator+ suite is just one example of how we help facilitate this. It can help enable educators to build more engaging content at scale, with little technical experience required. From interactive videos to quiz creation, you can create a wealth of interactive content more quickly and easily.
Creator+ was designed to help support the cognitive thought process involved in learning. It not only can help make your courses look great, but it can also deliver on learner engagement and outcomes by offering content that makes it easier to organise thoughts and comprehend complex ideas.
Strategic acquisitions that can help enhance the learning experience
We are always looking for opportunities to help build an exceptional suite of learning tools available. The recent acquisition and integration of H5P is a testament to this, helping to enable creators to choose from over 50 interactive content types—from presentations to AI-powered course creation.
Together, Creator+ and H5P can allow you to build more engaging courses packed with interactive content, video tools, dynamic analytics and generative AI. This can empower you to create content that’s visually more interesting, supports a variety of learning modalities and creates a diverse learning experience.
Learning services
We are exceptionally proud to be a vendor with an in-house team dedicated to enhancing learner engagement and success. D2L’s Learning Services team can work with you to design world-class content and learning experiences in Brightspace that can be customised to support your individual institution’s needs. We have in-house multi-disciplinary educators, technology experts and industry professionals ready to help solve your challenges and take your content to the next level.
And we can be with you every step of the way—whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to take your existing materials and learning provision to the next level.
One platform, multiple pedagogies
Brightspace can help support multiple delivery modes or pedagogical approaches from one single platform. These include anything from blended to fully online delivery, as well as continuing education models through short courses or micro-credential opportunities— in part facilitated through our e-commerce solution, Course Merchant. Brightspace can allow instructors to deliver courses using an array of pedagogical models too, from problem or challenge based approaches, all the way through to game-based learning.
One thing that makes us a little different is that our heritage is grounded in fully online learning. This is where automation, personalisation and rich learning analytics tools stem from. The first iteration of Brightspace was built to support a solely online course at the University of Guelph.
Brightspace is a leading competency-based education (CBE) platform, built to offer more powerful, individualised learning at scale, with the likes of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) adopting Brightspace to help reduce barriers with online experiential learning.
Block and blend
A number of universities, including De Montfort University and the University of Suffolk, have adopted a block and blend approach to teaching. This can help students to study one module at a time, instead of studying multiple options concurrently. Brightspace can support student engagement, independent learning, and facilitates regular assessments and feedback for course leaders.
We needed a flexible and facilitated approach to help faculty transform their teaching strategies for a remote delivery format. We leveraged our expertise across the continuum of course delivery methods to create a scalable and sustainable solution.
Our aim was to develop a learning model that supports student engagement, that helps them focus on what they’re studying at that time, and that gives them insight into their progress.
Project-based learning, gamification and short courses
Brightspace can help enable students to learn flexibly, access discussion forums, share ideas and feedback and work collaboratively on projects. Discover how Brightspace can be used to help deliver multiple learning modalities at institutions today.
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Flexible Learning
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Gamified Team-Base Learning
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Block Learning
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Professional Short Course Offerings
Find out more about D2L’s Learning Services team
- Help boost enrolment and increase revenue with Course Merchant
- Improve engagement rates with Creator+
- Create more interactive content, quickly and easily with the support of H5P
Continuing education
Brightspace can help equip institutions with the necessary tools to deliver top-tier continuing education experiences that can attract new learners and help them succeed in a rapidly changing professional landscape.
The organisational unit structure in Brightspace can be set up to include the organisation as a whole, campuses, departments, programs, social spaces, communities of practice and course levels. At each level of hierarchy, you can decide whether branding, homepage structure and access will be consistent or varied. Spaces created can also be used to support inter-campus and inter-university collaboration.