A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape: John Baker, Founder and CEO, Desire2Learn... Desire2Learn (D2L) is transforming education through technology.

Close your eyes. Now answer the question, what pops into your mind when you hear "Desire2Learn"? Okay, you can open your eyes. My sense is that this answer will be very different depending on whether ...

Desire2Learn is a 10-plus year old Canadian company that makes learning software — a learning management system to be precise — and here’s why, in spite of that description, it shouldn’t bore you to ...

Desire2Learn has been on a mission to re-define the “learning management system.” Founded in 1999 by John Baker--then a college student--Desire2Learn offers what is now commonly called a “LMS,” used ...

Desire2Learn's learning management system now has a name: Brightspace. The company had previously referred to the system as its "integrated learning platform." The name change, along with partnerships ...

Dennis Kavelman joined Research In Motion Ltd. when it was virtually unknown, with just 20 employees and roughly $2-million in revenue. Over the next 15 years, the Waterloo, Ont..-based smartphone ...

Waterloo-based learning platform software startup Desire2Learn has partially rebranded and named its new integrated learning platform Brightspace. It’s also announcing new partnerships with Microsoft ...

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Desire2Learn, the Ontario-based makers of one of the largest Learning Management Systems (LMS) that raised $80 million last year, has been going after M&A of late. Today, after buying student ...

Ed tech developer Desire2Learn, best known for a learning management system by the same name, has purchased Captual Technologies, which develops a lecture capture suite called ePresence. The price was ...

TORONTO—Dennis Kavelman, a former senior executive of the company now known as BlackBerry Ltd., has left Canadian technology startup Desire2Learn Inc. for personal reasons, a company spokeswoman and ...