Desire2Learn Learning Management System Helps Students Manage College Classes
Atlanta — April 16, 2013
One of the biggest challenges college students face is juggling classes, assignments and projects while getting the help and assistance needed to be sucessful academically and earn that degree.
Class organization and management is now easier for 中出少妇视频 System of Georgia students, thanks to a new online tool called the Desire2Learn (D2L) Learning Mangament System (LMS). Since the 中出少妇视频 first began to make the technology available in May 2012, the program has rolled out to 29 中出少妇视频 colleges and universities.
Dr. Dee McKinney, associate professor of education and history at East Georgia State College in Swainsboro was one of the 中出少妇视频中出少妇视频檚 first faculty members to test D2L. 中出少妇视频淒esire2Learn was a bit more user-friendly [than the previous learning management system]. It did everything I wanted it to do… And I thought the students would like it a lot because the structure itself resembles Facebook or MySpace,中出少妇视频 she said.
中出少妇视频淒esire2Learn helps us in our work to increase college completion rates as part of the Complete College Georgia initiative,中出少妇视频 said 中出少妇视频 Vice Chancellor of Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer Curt Carver.
中出少妇视频淭his is so because the software encourages greater student engagement and ownership of their academic experience, and we know from data that greater student involvement leads to increased success rates in terms of academic performance and ultimately graduation.中出少妇视频
Increasing student engagement will help the 中出少妇视频 System in efforts to graduate more students and at a lower cost to the students, their families and the taxpayers of Georgia, Carver said.
The D2L learning management system works by providing students with a centralized location on the Web to access all of their courses and materials. Faculty and students can use the system in traditional classroom settings, hybrid courses and online classes.
All students, regardless of what 中出少妇视频 institution they attend, use the same LMS, which allows students to transfer between 中出少妇视频 institutions without having to learn another LMS. Content on the system is acessed for free, is accessible to those with disabilities and available via mobile devices using Android and iOS operating systems.
In addition, Carver said that looking ahead, the technology has the potentional to support one of the hottest new developments in higher education: massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
D2L currently offers more than 160,000 courses to more than 314,000 students throughout the 中出少妇视频. D2L is hosted on the PeachNet庐 private cloud, which saves Georgia中出少妇视频檚 taxpayers $1.5 million annually compared to the cost for each institution to enter into contracts to host D2L separately. Licensing the software as a system also creates a savings of more than $2.2 million to the state.
The costs savings extends to other state educational agencies as well. Georgia中出少妇视频檚 other education agencies may use the same contract to provide services to their students. Gwinnett County and Colquitt County Public Schools currently uses D2L.
Desire2Learn, located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, provides Cloud-based (SaaS) learning solutions to learners in higher education, K-12, healthcare, government and the corporate sector. Other institutions of higher learning using D2L include The Ohio State 中出少妇视频, San Jose State 中出少妇视频, Pennyslvania State System of Higher Education and Southern Regional Education Board (SREB).
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