Innovations and Awards
Desire2Learn Honored as Microsoft Public Sector Partner of the Year
The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year.
Desire2Learn Receives Gold Medal from Brandon Hall Learning Technology Awards
Desire2Learn received a 2010 Brandon Hall gold medal award for technology excellence in the Best Advance in Technology in Learning Analytics or Reporting category.
The Brandon Hall Excellence in Learning Technology Awards are presented by Brandon Hall Group, a leading research firm in training and development. The Learning Technology Awards program showcases product innovations for their creation and management of learning, talent, and performance.
The Best Advance in Technology for Learning Analytics or Reporting category looks for functionality related to collecting learning data, querying data, creating reports, visualizing data, and comparing variables and data sets. The role of the technology in helping administrators make sense of data and understand the effectiveness of their learning services is a key criterion of the award.
For further information on how Desire2Learn® Analytics can assist your organization in transforming data into relevant knowledge, guiding performance, improving the online educational experience and provide flexible real-time information and reports on programs and course components.
Desire2Learn Receives International Platinum MarCom Award For Third Consecutive Year
The prestigious MarCom Platinum Award is presented to those entries judged to be among the most outstanding entries in the Association of Marketing & Communication Professionals (AMCP) competition. Platinum winners are recognized for their excellence in terms of quality, creativity, attention to detail, and resourcefulness. Winning a MarCom Award gives recognition to the creative talent, firms, departments and/or clients that collaborate on outstanding marketing and communication projects. Desire2Learn received the award in the 2010 competition for its FUSION 2010 Users' Conference material.
For further information on the Desire2Learn Learning and Creative Services team's flexible, interactive and accessible development and production services.
Desire2Learn Named a "Best Employer"
The primary requirement to be named a Best Employer is high "employee engagement" - a measure of how positively employees feel about their employer, how likely they are to stay, and how committed they are to doing their utmost to achieve business objectives. The average engagement score for Best Employer organizations of all sizes was 80 per cent; the average for other organizations participating in the two studies was 59 per cent.
In the 2011 Study, Desire2Learn placed in the Top 50.
