How Can We Help K-12
Desire2Learn can enable schools and programs like yours in achieving high quality, rigorous eLearning programs. Assistance ranges from providing the best online learning tools in the industry to stellar support of clients. We can help you achieve your eLearning vision and goals in a stable, cost-effective, scalable environment.
Expanding instructional opportunities is a desire and challenge for all educational programs. Whether your goal is to offer more rigorous courses to students, provide options for students to get ahead, catch up on an alternative schedule, provide courses that allow any time, any pace learning or a myriad of other objectives, the Desire2Learn Learning Environment can help. Desire2Learn's Learning Environment provides you with the flexibility to control the environment to match your own unique approach to teaching and learning through a complete web-based product suite of easy-to-use teaching and learning tools for course development, delivery and management.
Collaboration is a necessity in any educational environment where the teaching and learning environment encompass more than just the instructor and student. The educational environment increasingly is a partnership extending outside of the classroom to include the community and a wider network of communication, information and presentation of knowledge and skills. Expanding the vast array of tools available through the Desire2Learn Learning Environment, we offer the Desire2Learn ePortfolio, a powerful, yet intuitive, platform for collecting, organizing, reflecting and presenting learning artifacts. Submitting materials for assignments, working on group projects, resumé creation and job seeking are made easy through flexible and diverse design and sharing options. Additionally, our Desire2Learn LiveRoom tool provides the ability for synchronous chat, whiteboard/canvas, and presentation technology designed to assist in real-time collaboration. By offering real-time communication tools, all users can benefit from connecting and interacting with one another.
Professional development and training are vital to implementing the keys to achieving improved student success, effectiveness and measuring accountability. Often finding the funds and time to institute effective professional development programs or courses can prove daunting. The Desire2Learn Learning Environment or Desire2Learn Essentials products provide the ability of supplying professional development and training at many different paces, places and levels of interactivity. Additionally, the Desire2Learn Learning Repository (LOR) is the first fully integrated standards-based LOR enabling the storing, tagging, searching and reusing of learning objects. Through use of the Desire2Learn Learning Repository organizations can effectively capture, reuse and manage content across multiple programs, courses and sections to maximum efficiency and minimize costs.
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"We want to create a dynamic environment in which content (curriculum) can be shared and updated, Desire2Learn's pedagogy of technology synergies is very similar to our district's. Desire2Learn is very customizable to our needs."
James LavereTeacher
Maplewood Richmond Heights School District